Largest Granite Quarry Scotland

Mount airy nicknamed the granite city is home to the largest open face granite quarry in the world.

Largest granite quarry scotland.

Glensanda is the flagship site of construction materials producer and supplier aggregate industries and the largest granite quarry in europe exporting to northern europe. It has an annual production capacity in excess of 9 million tonnes and a massive 760 million tonnes reserve of granite. It has an annual production capacity in excess of 9 million tonnes and a. Visit our observation deck where you can see nearly all the activities and are close enough to be plenty startled when we set off an explosion which occurs several times each day.

By the newsroom wednesday 20th january 2010 12 00 am. It is europe s largest manmade hole a water filled quarry that provided the stone that made aberdeen the granite city. The largest granite quarry in europe glensanda has enough rock to extract for 100 years. There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open face quarries.

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