North and Western Queensland
This region encompasses the nine local government areas of Burke, Carpentaria, Cloncurry, Doomadgee, Flinders, McKinlay, Mornington, Mount Isa and Richmond.
You can view projects being planned and delivered in this region below. You can also view projects across Queensland in our Big Build map.
Featured projects
Townsville University Hospital
Construction of a new clinical services building on the existing Townsville University Hospital site, focused on planned surgical and sub-acute beds. This upgrade will deliver 143 extra beds by 2026.
Health
CopperString 2032
The Powerlink-led CopperString 2032 project, formerly known as CopperString 2.0, initially involves building 840km of new electricity transmission line from just south of Townsville in the Burdekin region to Mount Isa that will connect Queensland’s North West Minerals Province (NWMP) to the National Electricity Market. Approximately 200km of additional transmission line will be required to connect new renewable generators to CopperString.
The North West Minerals Province contains one of the world’s richest deposits of critical minerals worth potentially an estimated $500 billion. Critical minerals are the essential components for production of emerging technologies such as electric vehicles, renewable energy products and storage and low-emission power sources.
CopperString 2032 will provide energy certainty to the burgeoning critical minerals sector, delivering reliable, affordable and renewable power to the people, businesses and communities in the region. It will also unlock the development of one of Australia’s largest renewable energy zones.
Energy
Queensland Resources Common User Facility
The Queensland Resources Common User Facility in Townsville will support the mining, extraction and processing of critical minerals.
Located at the Cleveland Bay Industrial Park in Townsville, the facility will be a hub to trial production processes for commercialisation, enabling prospective miners to begin producing mineral samples at scale.
With an initial focus on vanadium, the facility is intended to be operational in 2025.
The aim is to accelerate the development of commercial mining projects, promote investment in advanced mineral manufacturing opportunities and enable development of supply chain and supporting industries in Queensland.
Research & technology
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The infrastructure being planned and delivered in Queensland is derived from the Queensland Government Infrastructure Pipeline.
Last updated: 19 Oct 2023