Queensland hard rock quarry for sale

Nickolas Zakharia02/12/2020, 7:13 am09/12/2020

The family-owned Booyal Freehold Quarry in Queensland is on the market and represents a 500,000 tonne per annum resource.

Established from a greenfield site in 2013, the Booyal Quarry has grown its sales and income each year, with the past three years trucking 380,000, 420,000 and 320,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of material consecutively.

Located 25km west of Childers, the 75ha Booyal Quarry has crushing and screening approval up to 500,000 tpa.

The Department of Environment and Science’s extraction limit at the freehold quarry is one million tpa, with the ability to extend the council DA from 500,000 tpa to one million tpa.

It is positioned among surrounding properties owned by the current quarry owners.

The site features significant hard rock deposits with minimal overburden.

The quarry’s volcaniclastic siltstone resource is used to produce a range of products at the site, including 5mm, 7mm, 10mm, 14mm, 16mm, and 20mm aggregates, Main Roads materials and roadbase materials that are supplied to local projects.

Volcaniclastic siltstone is a hard rock with low abrasive qualities which minimises machine wear.

Booyal Quarry is well positioned to particularly take advantage of the infrastructure works planned for Queensland’s Wide Bay and Burnett regions.

Logistically, the site is just off the Bruce Highway between Childers and Gin Gin, with an operating range of up to 200km.

The site has all the necessary industrial approvals and infrastructure in place to continue operations, including haul roads, transportable buildings, offices, a workshop and weighbridge facilities.

It also features mobile crushing and screening plants, excavators, loaders, dozer, dump trucks, prime movers, tippers, side tippers, and stag trailers.

The crushing plant and equipment is regularly maintained.

An estimated three million tonnes has been extracted from the quarry within the past seven years, with the site having a more than 50-year working life.

The quarry currently has two pits which will eventually join together to be extracted to a 65m depth. Further pits can then be created.

Booyal Quarry is up for sale on a “walk in, walk out” basis, with offers to also be considered for the land, approvals and fixed infrastructure, either with or without plant and equipment.