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.

It has an annual production capacity in excess of 9 million tonnes and a. There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open face quarries. 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. It has an annual production capacity in excess of 9 million tonnes and a massive 760 million tonnes reserve of granite.

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

It is europe s largest manmade hole a water filled quarry that provided the stone that made aberdeen the granite city.