Largest Granite Quarry Scotland

Here nick witnesses a 130 000 ton explosion leaving the geographer with mixed feelings.

Largest granite quarry scotland.

By the newsroom wednesday 20th january 2010 12 00 am. Glensanda is the flagship site of construction materials producer and supplier aggregate industries and the largest granite quarry in europe exporting to northern europe. 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.

It has an annual production capacity in excess of 9 million tonnes and a massive 760 million tonnes reserve of granite. It is europe s largest manmade hole a water filled quarry that provided the stone that made aberdeen the granite city. There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open face quarries. Mount airy nicknamed the granite city is home to the largest open face granite quarry in the world.

Super quarry glensanda marks 30 years of shipping.