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Gold Coast Quarry

Project overview*

EIS status	Approved with conditions
Description	Two-million-tonnes-per-annum hardrock quarry on a 220-hectare greenfield site.
Proponent	Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Ltd
Location/s	Old Coach Road, Reedy Creek, Tallebudgera Valley, Gold Coast (about 500 m from Pacific Motorway). Map
Local government/s	Gold Coast City Council
Investment	$140-$160 million
Key features	mobile crushing plants for the first 6-8 years of operations, after which they would be replaced by 1 fixed crushing plant vegetated buffer zones varying in width from 250m to 600m retention of 155 hectares (70 per cent) of the site's existing vegetation
Jobs	246 (construction) 24 (operational)

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

Environmental impact statement (EIS) process

Date	Activity
23 January 2014	Commonwealth Minister for the Environment's approval of controlled action, subject to conditions.
20 December 2013	Coordinator-General's report on EIS ( 2.7 MB) released.
25 October 2013 to 22 November 2013	Additional information to EIS government agency consultation Additional Information Report ( 2.7 MB) Appendices: A - Air quality ( 1.75 MB) B - Water quality ( 857 KB) C - Groundwater dependent ecosystems and terrestrial fauna ( 1.37 MB) D - Groundwater ( 728 KB) E - Traffic and transport ( 2.53 MB) F - Economics ( 767 KB) Matters of national environmental significance report Part 1 ( 1.84 MB) Part 2 ( 3.71 MB) Part 3 ( 6.02 MB) Part 4 ( 2.07 MB)
6 August 2013	Additional information to EIS requested by Coordinator-General.
27 April 2013 to 11 June 2013	EIS public consultation Executive summary ( 2.79 MB) Part 1 (EIS Appendices A - I) ( 169 MB) Part 2 (Appendices I (cont) - P) ( 207 MB) Part 3 (Appendices P (cont) - T) ( 237 MB) Part 4 (Appendices T (cont) - CC) ( 150 MB) Part 5 (Appendices CC (cont) - LL) ( 268 MB) Part 6 (Appendices LL (cont) XX) ( 55 MB)
26 July 2011	Terms of reference for EIS ( 438 KB) released.
19 February 2011 to 1 April 2011	Draft terms of reference for EIS public consultation.
21 December 2010	Project deemed a controlled action by Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.
1 December 2010	Project referred to Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.
19 November 2010	Gazettal of 'coordinated project' declaration ( 213 KB)
8 December 2009	Application, including initial advice statement ( 809 KB), submitted. Appendices: A-B ( 2.57 MB) B (cont) - C ( 503 KB) C (cont) - H ( 2.70 MB)

Read more about the EIS process.

Media releases

Quarries build stronger Queensland (20 December 2013)
More information needed on Gold Coast quarry proposal (9 August 2013)
Public to have its say on Gold Coast quarry project (26 April 2013)

Last updated: 16 Mar 2023