Largest Granite Quarry Scotland

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

Largest granite quarry scotland.

The largest granite quarry in europe glensanda has enough rock to extract for 100 years. 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 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. Glensanda is the flagship site of construction materials producer and supplier aggregate industries and the largest granite quarry in europe exporting to northern europe. By the newsroom wednesday 20th january 2010 12 00 am. Super quarry glensanda marks 30 years of shipping.

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