Cooma Road Quarry (Queanbeyan) NSW
Holcim Australia operates Cooma Road Quarry, a hard rock quarry located approximately 6km south of Queanbeyan, New South Wales (NSW). Cooma Road Quarry has been operating at the site since 1959 and is considered a significant regional supplier of granite and dacite hard rock aggregates.
Products and Sales
Phone 1300 555 277
Community Enquiries
Phone 0437 427 607
About the Quarry
The Cooma Road Quarry Development Consent provides for the following:
- extraction of the remaining resources within the existing approved quarry pit area;
- extension of the approved extraction boundary to the north covering an area of approximately 3.5 hectares;
- increasing the maximum annual production limit from 1 Mtpa to 1.5 Mtpa;
- allowance to receive quarry materials from other sites for crushing and screening (as required) and then sale. Total product (including from both material quarried from the site and from materials imported to the site) will be maintained within the total production limit of 1.5 Mtpa;
- relocation of the existing workshop, truck parking and temporary stockpiles;
- addition of a mobile pug mill; and
- recycling of clean concrete on site for re-use as product.
Annual Review, Planning & Approvals
- Annual Review – 2023 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2022 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2021 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2020 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2019 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2018 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2017 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2016 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2015 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2014 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Annual Review – 2013 – Cooma Road Quarry
- Cooma Road Quarry: Environment protection licence (Environment Protection Authority of New South Wales) (July 2020)
- Cooma Road Quarry: Continued operations project notice of development consent (Department of Planning & Environment of New South Wales) including modifications August 2016 & April 2019
- Environmental impact statement: Cooma Road Quarry continued operations project – October 2012
- Appendix 1-2: DGR’s, EIS project team and schedule of lands; Economic assessment and needs analysis
- Appendix 3-5: Community information sheets; Groundwater assessment; and Ecological assessment supporting information
- Appendix 6-7: Aboriginal archaeological due diligence report; Historic heritage assessment
- Appendix 8-11: Air quality impact assessment; Greenhouse gas and energy assessment; Noise and blasting impact assessment; Traffic impact assessment
- Response to submissions: Cooma Road Quarry continued operations project – January 2013
- Modification to Development Consent - Environmental Assessment
- Statement of Environmental Effects - Modification 2 to Development Consent
- Environmental management strategy
- Noise Management Plan (September 2019)
- Blast Management Plan (September 2019)
- Air Quality Management Plan (September 2019)
- Water Management Plan (Final – July 2019)
- Heritage Management Plan (September 2019)
- Rehabilitation Management Plan (September 2019)
- Road traffic noise assessment report
- Transport Management Plan (September 2019)
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q2 Apr/Jun 2024
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q1 Jan/Mar 2024
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q4 Oct/Dec 2023
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q3 Jul/Sep 2023
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q2 Apr/Jun 2023
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q1 Jan/Mar 2023
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q4 Oct/Dec 2022
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q3 Jul/Sep 2022
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q2 Apr/Jun 2022
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q1 Jan/Mar 2022
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q1 Jan/Mar 2021
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q4 Oct/Dec 2020
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q3 Jul/Sep 2020
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q2 Apr/Jun 2020
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q1 Jan/Mar 2020
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q4 Oct/Dec 2019
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q3 Jul/Sep 2019
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q2 Apr/Jun 2019
- Cooma Road Quarry – Noise Monitoring Assessment – Q1 Jan/Mar 2019
2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
Q1 | 333,864 | 269,716 | 288,241 | 215,469 |
Q2 | 332,487 | 251,881 | 285,474 | 205,140 |
Q3 | 313,196 | 238,522 | 255,630 | |
Q4 | 285,024 | 307,651 | 212,845 |
- Independent Environmental Audit - April 2024 - Cooma Road Quarry
- Independent Environmental Audit - July 2021 - Cooma Road Quarry
- Independent Environmental Audit - 2017 - Cooma Road Quarry
- Response to Independent Environmental Audit - 2017 - Cooma Road Quarry
- Independent Environmental Audit - 2015 - Cooma Road Quarry
- Response to Independent Environmental Audit - 2015 - Cooma Road Quarry
Our Community
The purpose of the Community Consultative Committee (CCC) is to provide a forum for open discussion between representatives of Holcim, the community, the council and other stakeholders on issues directly relating to the mine’s operations, environmental performance and community relations, and to keep the community informed on these matters.
The committee provides a forum to:
- establish good working relationships between Holcim, the community and other stakeholders in relation to the quarry
- provide for the ongoing communication of information on mining operations and the environmental performance of the quarry
- provide an opportunity for comment on the quarry’s environmental performance
- discuss community concerns and review the resolution of community complaints
- discuss how best to communicate relevant information on the quarry and its environmental performance to the broader community, and
- work together towards outcomes of benefit to the mine, immediate neighbours and the local and regional community.
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – September 2024
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – April 2024
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – August 2023
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – April 2023
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – November 2022
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – February 2022
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – July 2021
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – April 2021
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – June 2020
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – May 2018
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – December 2017
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – May 2017
- Cooma Road Quarry – Community Consultative Committee – Meeting Minutes – November 2016
- Cooma Road Quarry – Complaint Register – 2024 (0 Complaints)
- Cooma Road Quarry – Complaint Register – 2023 (5 Complaints)
- Cooma Road Quarry – Complaint Register 2022 (1 Complaint)
- Cooma Road Quarry – Complaint Register 2021 (0 Complaints)
- Cooma Road Quarry – Complaint Register 2020 (1 Complaint)
- Cooma Road Quarry – Complaint Register 2019 (0 Complaints)