Largest Granite Quarry Scotland

The largest granite quarry in europe glensanda has enough rock to extract for 100 years.

Largest granite quarry scotland.

By the newsroom wednesday 20th january 2010 12 00 am. Super quarry glensanda marks 30 years of shipping. 24th august 2016 23rd august 2016. 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.

Glensanda is the flagship site of construction materials producer and supplier aggregate industries and the largest granite quarry in europe exporting to markets all across northern europe. Here nick witnesses a 130 000 ton explosion leaving the geographer with mixed feelings. Mount airy nicknamed the granite city is home to the largest open face granite quarry in the world. There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open face quarries.

It has an annual production capacity in excess of 9 million tonnes and a.