Sunshine Coast farm ‘sitting on $1 BILLION of sand’ hits the market

A Sunshine Coast farm said to be sitting on $1 BILLION worth of sand is now for sale.

The 208-hectare property on Honey Farm Road in Meridan Plains holds the largest deposit of alluvial sand – a major resource for construction – ever discovered in Queensland.

“The potential of the Meridan Plains sand deposit – estimated at more than 100 million tonnes and worth at least $1 billion wholesale – is enormous,” CBRE Managing Director Rem Rafter said in a statement to 7NEWS.com.au

“This is…