Boral Quarries Grantville & Glen Forbes

Boral Quarries Grantville and Glen Forbes, located in the picturesque Bass Coast region, approximately 100km south-east of Melbourne.

The sand produced at our quarries is vital to the Bass Coast and Cardinia Shires, and is distributed widely to the Mornington Peninsula, north from Dandenong to Port Melbourne and Coburg, and east to Montrose and Healesville.

Our sand has played a crucial role in enabling major construction projects within the Bass Coast Shire, including the Wonthaggi desalination plant, Wonthaggi wind turbines, highways, roads, municipal offices, theatres, cultural centres, sports fields, hospitals, colleges, schools, and preschools.

Additionally, our sand has been integral to the construction of many homes in and around the Bass Coast Shire, fostering growth in the local areas. We also collaborate with numerous specialised consultants for planning, environment, health and safety, and subcontractors for transport, earthmoving, plumbing and drainage, engineering and fabrication, and mechanical repairs.

Glen Forbes Quarry

The Quarry site provides the source of fine to medium grade sand that is blended with coarse sand extracted from Grantville to produce the ideal grading for blended concrete sand.

As is the case with almost every quarry in the Westernport sand extraction region, the site was previously cleared for agriculture. The Glen Forbes site was a low yielding pasture for beef cattle grazing; cattle are still grazed on part of the site today. 

Approximately 360,000 tonnes of fine to medium sand is quarried at the site annually. The raw sand is then blended, washed and processed in a new multi-million dollar processing plant that uses worlds best practice to produce concrete sand. 

Grantville Quarry

The site provides the source of coarse sand required for blending with the fine to medium sand extracted from Glen Forbes to produce the ideal grading for blended concrete sand. This site occupies an area of 36 hectares.  Inside the boundary of this area is a 20- to 50-metre-wide buffer zone that exists to mitigate the impact of quarrying operations on the surrounding environment. 

The site is located on Crown Land inside a much larger area (over 500 hectares) that was reserved for gravel and sand extraction by the State Government in 1921. The reservation of this land for sand extraction prevented it from being cleared for farming and as a result, this remnant vegetation is now considered to have a high conservation value. The area is now known as “The Grantville nature conservation reserve” and there is no prospect for expansion or development of quarries in this area.