2016-07-12 - Item 13 - Att 1 - Extractive Resources and Mineral Planning Study 2016

1.2    Protecting state significant resources
The Queensland State Government has identified that a strong resources industry is vital to
Queensland’s economy and that a growing state requires economical access to essential raw
materials to support its construction and infrastructure sectors.
The State Planning Policy Guidelines for Mining and Extractive Resources identifies the need to
protect resources stating:
       the extraction of raw materials such as rock, sand, gravel and clay provides essential raw
       materials needed to support new infrastructure, build roads, houses, hospitals, airports and
       rail lines. Encroaching urban development can constrain the ability of industry to cost
       effectively supply the sand, gravel and aggregate required to support infrastructure and
       construction.
       In general, quarries can only economically provide materials to their own local and regional
       communities. As quarry material needs to be sourced locally from particular geological
       areas, the suitability of a particular extractive resource for its intended purpose can mean
       that the potential locations of suitable extractive resource deposits are highly limited.
       Extractive resources are bulky and of relatively low value, so that transport forms a major
       component of the end price paid by customers.
Because of their economic importance to the state, significant extractive resources, known as key
resource areas (KRAs) are protected from development that could impact on their long-term
viability.


1.3     Definitions
The Sustainable Planning Act (SPA) Regulation defines extractive industry under the Queensland
Planning Provision (QPP) as:

       a premises used for the extraction and/or processing of extractive resources and
       associated activities, including their transportation to market.

The Mineral Resources Act 1989 defines a mineral and mining (in short):

       A mineral is a substance normally occurring naturally as part of the earth’s crust or
       dissolved or suspended in water on or within the earth’s crust and includes clay, foundry
       sand, coal seam gas, limestone, marble, petroleum.

       Mining means to carry on an operation with a view to, or for the purpose of, winning mineral
       from a place where it occurs, or extracting mineral from its natural state, or disposing of
       mineral in connection with, or waste substances resulting from, the winning or extraction.

       A full definition is contained in Appendix 2.



1.4     Approvals process
Development proposals for extractive industries (i.e. a quarry) are regulated and assessed under
the provisions of the planning scheme. Council is the assessment manager and developments are
assess through the Integrated Development Assessment System (IDAS).

Coal, mineral, petroleum and gas (including coal seam gas) resources are the property of the
Queensland government. The approval processes for exploration and development of these
resources, including issuing mining leases, is governed and decided by the state in accordance

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