Projects

Far North Queensland projects

Projects for the Cairns and surrounding region have also been published by the Queensland Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry by project proponent.

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Project Estimated project value Stage Location
Agate Creek Gold Project: open-cut/CIP development Not available Under Study Far North
Archer Point Windfarm: 120 MW wind power facility 250 Under Study Far North
Baal Gammon Copper, Tin, Silver, Indium Project: open pit methods over a life of six to seven years, with the ore to be treated at the Jumna mill 47 Construction Far North
Barron Gorge Capital Works: Capital works and modifications 7 Basic Engineering Far North
Bruce Highway: Ingham to Innisfail 172 Construction Far North-Northern
Bruce Highway: Innisfail to Cairns (Sheehy Road to Ray Jones Drive) 150+ Committed Far North
Bruce Highway Mulgrave River, bridge construction 50 Basic Engineering Far North
Bruce Highway – Tully: Corduroy Creek - Banyan Creek, Tully, realign 2 lanes 173 Basic Engineering Far North
Cairns Central Community Health Centre 12.674 Basic Engineering Far North
Cairns Hospital Emergency Dept Additional Bed Capacity 11 Detailed Engineering Far North
Cairns Base Hospital redevelopment 446.3 Detailed Engineering Far North
Cairns Ports Cairns airport domestic terminal redevelopment 192.8 Construction Far North
Cairns Ports AQIS office building 6.35 Construction Far North
Cairns Ports airport landscaping 4.023 Detailed Engineering Far North
Cairns Ports airport domestic short term covered parking 3.778 Detailed Engineering Far North
Cairns Ports International Terminal Building Baggage reclaim hall expansion 19 Detailed Engineering Far North
Cairns Ports International Terminal Building Departures retail, duty free walkthrough, specialty retail and landside retail 24 Detailed Engineering Far North
Cairns Regional Performing Arts Centre 85 Under Study Far North
Chalco Project: A bauxite mine and a beneficiation plant at Aurukun with a production of 4.8Mtpa of dry beneficiated bauxite and an alumina refinery on the east coast with a production capacity of 2.1Mtpa of alumina exported to China to be established within a five year period; a total investment of $2.9 billion including $810 million in mine and beneficiation plant and $2.1 billion in refinery; an estimated direct construction workforce of 3800 over a three year construction period including 700 for mine and beneficiation plant at Aurukun and 3100 for refinery at Bowen; and an estimated direct operational work force of 585, including around 105 for mine and beneficiation plant operation and 475 for refinery operation. The provisional proposal includes a mine and washing plant at Aurukun and a refinery on the east coast of Queensland worth a total of $2.92 billion. 2930 Feasibility Far North-Mackay
Cleaner Seas Alliance – Upgrade of Wastewater Treatment Plants Completion – November 2009 120 Construction Far North
Coconut Grove NQ three-level apartment development 43 Construction Far North
Department of Housing construction medium density Far North 5.342 Ongoing Far North
Department of Housing construction detached houses Far North 3.354 Ongoing Far North
Einasleigh Copper Project: a treatment facility adjacent to the open pit Kaiser Bill mine 6 km to the west of Einasleigh, which would produce a precious metal-rich copper concentrate. The production rate is projected to be 1 Mt/a in 2009, building to 1.5 Mt/a from 2010. 80 Under Study Far North
Ella Bay Integrated Resort: a proposal to transform a 450 hectare operating cattle station into a fully master planned, residential resort community over a ten to fifteen year period. 1400 Under Study Far North
Ely Bauxite Deposit: development of approx 50 million tonnes. 300 Prefeasibility Far North
Embley South Bauxite Project: development of a new bauxite operation south of the existing mine and port. 1053 Feasibility Far North
Erub (Darnley) Island Primary Health Care Centre 6.875 Detailed Engineering Far North
HMAS Cairns: Upgrade of buildings and infrastructure to cater for introduction of Armidale class patrol boats. Start date: December 2008 76.3 Basic Engineering Far North
Hodgkinson (Northcote and Tregoora) Project: gold: The project comprises Northcote (joint venture with Jackson Gold and International Goldfields), 24 km west of Mareeba, and the wholly owned Tregoora goldfield, 103 km west-north-west of Mareeba. Further exploration is planned, with a view to eventual treatment at two centrally located mills. The company has carried out test work on the feasibility of using bacterial oxidation to treat the ore. Not available Under Study Far North
Hope Vale Primary Health Care Centre 12.539 Detailed Engineering Far North
Indigenous Community Housing 52.3 Ongoing Far North
Innisfail -Edmonton Line Replacement (Powerlink) 83 Construction Far North
Isabella State School Stage 3 7.098 Construction Far North
Kareeya Capital Works 8 Basic Engineering Far North
Kendall Kaolin Project 120 Under Study Far North
Kennedy Highway 14 Basic Engineering Far North
Lighthouse Quartz Project Not available Under Study Far North
Lotus Glen Correctional Centre: Extension to Lotus Glen high security prison in Mareeba. 445 Detailed Engineering Far North
Mareeba Courthouse 6.078 Committed Far North
Mareeba Police Station replacement station & watchhouse 10.355 Detailed Engineering Far North
Mareeba new office building 15.5 Basic Engineering Far North
Mourilyan Silica Sand Project: silica sand dry-mining operation and wash plant. The project is capable of producing and exporting at least 200,000 t/a of highgrade silica sand. Mine life is expected to be more than 30 years. Not available Under Study Far North
Metricon Sea Haven Marina Development 130 Construction Far North
Mungana Polymetallic (Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper and Gold) Project: construction of a mill 90 Construction Far North
Ocean’s Edge residential resort 350 Construction Far North
NORNICO Nickel Project: The proposed project will involve shallow pit mining from five pits at a rate of 1.5 Mt/a to produce about 10,000 t/a of nickel and 435 t/a of cobalt. Nickel and cobalt is to be recovered by a heap leaching process. The company aims to build a sulphuric acid plant and power station using imported sulphur for both. The vision is for a project life of 20 years. The concentrate product could be trucked to the Yabulu nickel refinery or exported. Construction 2nd Qtr 2010. 350 Under Study Far North
Peninsula Development Road: Coen - Weipa, construct to sealed standard on various sections 21.379 Basic Engineering Far North
Pisolite Hills: development of a greenfield bauxite mine producing eight to twelve million tonnes of run of mine bauxite ore per year for export through a loading facilty in Port Musgrave with construction of a beneficiation plant and tailings dam on the site together with a camp, haul road, barge loading facility and associated infrastructure 2010-11. Not available EIS Far North
Police housing Cooktown & Weipa 2.8 Detailed Engineering Far North
Police housing Bamaga & Kowanyama 3 Detailed Engineering Far North
Pormpuraaw various roads, restoration works 4 Ongoing Far North
Port Douglas Police Station replacement station 3 Committed Far North
Powerlink (Tully-Innisfail transmission line) 87.2 Construction Far North
Powerlink (Innisfail-Edmonton line replacement) 94.7 Construction Far North
Redlynch State College 18.2 Construction Far North
Saibai Island Primary Health Care Centre 5.685 Construction Far North
Thursday Island Chronic Disease Centre 30.015 Tendering Far North
Thursday Island New Office Building 13.5 Basic Engineering Far North
Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE - Cairns Campus 26 Committed Far North
Watershed tungsten project: produce a concentrate containing 4,000 t of contained WO3 per year, with a mine life of at least ten years and a mining rate of between 1.5 Mt/a and 1.75 Mt/a. This figure would represent approximately 7% of the entire world tungsten use. The deposit comprises disseminated fine to coarse-grained scheelite mineralisation, which is potentially amenable to a large open-pit mining operation 50 Under Study Far North
Weipa Bauxite Mine Expansion of existing mine from 18.2 million tons per year to 35. Construction to commence late 2009, early 2010 with production in early 2013. 1000 Feasibility Far North
Weipa Hospital redevelopment 45.763 Detailed Engineering Far North
Wallamurra Tower Completion – December 2008 two towers (five- and seven-storey) – 26 apartments and four commercial suites and one restaurant 20 Construction Far North
Warraber Island Primary Health Care Centre 4.777 Detailed Engineering Far North
Western Cape College – Weipa Stage 3 6.3 Construction Far North
William McCormack Government Offices: Stage 1: Phase 1 of a 2 stage building 9400sqm net lettable area over 9 levels and parking for 200 cars. It will be 5 Green Star Rated, in design, interior fitout and as built with the Green Building Council of Australia. 79.5 Detailed Engineering Far North
Woree Business & Industry Park - Stages 2 & 3 6 Basic Engineering Far North
Yarrabah Primary Health Care Centre 15.774 Detailed Engineering Far North

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