Aggregates and Crushed Rock Products
Yarra Valley Quarries (YVQ) produces a range of concrete aggregates and crushed rock products at our Launching Place quarry.
The extensive Hornfels resource is VicRoads ‘Source Rock’ accredited and while the main production focus is on manufacturing 7mm, 10mm, 14mm and 20mm aggregates for concrete, a range of other crushed rock products are also produced for various civil and infrastructure works.
These include VicRoads registered ‘Mix Designs’ for:
- Class 2 Crushed Rock;
- Class 3 Crushed Rock; and
- Class 4 Crushed Rock.
Yarra Valley Quarries also has a pug-mill for the production of cement stabilised ‘Wet Mixes’ for more specialist applications.
5mm Minus Crushed Rock Embedment is also produced and registered with South East Water, City West Water and Yarra Valley Water (collectively the Melbourne Water Retailers Association, or MWRA) in accordance with the Water Services Association of Australia, WSA PS - 361 Embedment / 5mm Minus Fine Crushed Rock, Product Specification.
Other products produced at the Yarra Valley Quarries site include:
- Nondescript Crushed Rock (NDCR) – various grades;
- Semi-weathered Crushed Rock; and
- Screened Overburden materials, including Granitic Sand