Mt Cotton Quarry

Barro Group is a family owned company with over 60 years’ experience supplying quality materials to the construction industry. It is accompany dedicated to technological advanced sustainable partnership quarrying

The Group is an integrated resource, manufacturing and distribution organisation that today operates divisions throughout Australia with a commitment to supplying quality materials and products at competitive prices.

Mount Cotton Quarry

Since the 1960s, Mount Cotton Quarry has been providing raw materials needed for building our homes, hospitals, schools, businesses and for infrastructure like roads. 

In 1992 the quarry was purchased by Barro Group, who later purchased land bordering the site. Since that time the quarry has been extracting rock used to produce materials for making concrete and building roads.

However in about 2 – 3 years’ time, reserves of this rock will be depleted and in order for Barro Group to provide the Redlands and its surrounds with quarry materials for the next 40-50 years, Mount Cotton Quarry has now reached the next stages of planned development.

The Need

Now here’s something you may not know…

This year and each year, we require about 11 tonnes of quarry materials for each and every one of us, just to ensure we have roads, schools, hospitals and housing…

That is almost ten times more than the amount of food we require, per head, each year…

So this is critical.

And the challenge for community, Council and Government’s at every level is just this…

How can we align the needs of community and the needs of the wider environment?

It is a critical question for Councils to consider how they best position the interests of residents in ensuring quarry materials are locally and economically available.

The answer lies in ensuring that quarry materials are and remain economically available and locally controlled.

This project, The Barro Group Mount Cotton Quarry Extension Project is just that, a locally based, locally monitored, locally regulated new bench mark.