The RCKRA Project is intended to continue to meet the growing demand for local construction industry materials to assist in keeping downward pressure on escalating construction material costs through maintaining a competitive market, reducing haulage distances and time.
The RCKRA Project will not commence operation until Boral’s West Burleigh Quarry has exhausted its reserves, predicted to be in approximately 2038 (pending market conditions).
To deliver the most environmentally, socially and economically sensible approach to unlocking this identified State significant resource at this location, significant time and effort to improve the project design has been invested, with particular focus on:
- Minimising the transport impacts on Old Coach Road, the Pacific Motorway and the surrounding residential community to the greatest extent practicable;
- Minimising the visual impacts of the proposed extractive operations through a modified extraction approach and early progressive rehabilitation of terminal benches; and
- Delivering a localised net environmental benefit through rehabilitation, targeted habitat restoration and improvements in the Hinterland to Coast Critical Corridor.
The RCKRA Project specifically proposes the phased establishment of an Extractive Industry on the 216.7ha site, with a total disturbance footprint of 56.4 ha (approx. 26% of the total site area), comprised of a:
- 18ha infrastructure and processing area; and
- 4.8 ha quarry dam and access road.
The RCKRA Project proposes to extract approximately 58Mt of hard rock over an estimated 50-year project lifespan (subject to market conditions), with a maximum production output of 1.2Mtpa.
The RCKRA Project site will be accessed via Old Coach Road, the mapped KRA haulage route to the M1 via Bridgeman Drive.
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