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 markets all across northern europe.

Largest granite quarry scotland.

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

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. Super quarry glensanda marks 30 years of shipping. 24th august 2016 23rd august 2016. Here nick witnesses a 130 000 ton explosion leaving the geographer with mixed feelings.

Glensanda is the flagship site of construction materials producer and supplier aggregate industries and the largest granite quarry in europe exporting to northern europe.