Boral Resources (NW) Pty Ltd owns and operates Stockton Sand Quarry, located on Coxs Lane, Fullerton Cove, a long-standing operation that extracts and transports sand for use in the building, landscaping and construction markets.   The Boral Stockton Quarry is one of around 10 similar local operations permitted to remove and process dune sands from within private land.

The site has an area of approximately 246 hectares (ha) and has been used for the purposes of extractive industries (sand quarrying) since the 1970s.  At present, there is an existing quarry located on the windblown (transgressive) sand dunes of Stockton Bight, which transports up to 500,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of product (the existing windblown project). 

Boral are currently in the process of commencing operations in a second area known as the Dry Sand Extraction Project that was approved by the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) on 8 August 2024 (SSD-52984213).  The site is in the central portion of the quarry and covers an area of approximately 38 ha.  It is generally consistent with the former inland extraction area footprint approved under DA 2010-94.  The project has approval to increase production to 750,000 tpa for the entire site (including the windblown transgressive) sand dunes project.

Boral are currently in the process of finalising the associated management plans for the development and once the management plans are approved, Boral will aim to commence construction and quarrying under the Dry Sand Extraction Project in 2025. 

The Stockton Quarry has developed a comprehensive Environmental Management Strategy (EMS), which guides how the multiple environmental requirements of the site are addressed on a day-to-day basis.

The Stockton Sand Quarry was approved by the Minister for Planning in January 2006. The consent (DA 140-6-2005) sets out the operating, environmental and reporting conditions the quarry must comply with throughout its operational life.

The Stockton Quarry approval has been modified two times since its initial granting. You can read through the consolidated consent documentation (to MOD 1) and (to MOD 2) below.