• General
• Quarrying
• Rough Blocks
• Primary Production
• Slabs
• Monuments
• Finished Monuments
• Packaging
• The Tile Plant
• Ecology

Production Techniques & Facilities

Quarrying

New Quarry: Here, one of our directors, the quarry manager and our main liason officer are inspecting the geological nature of a new quarry. During this test they will also use sophisticated equipment to ascertain the structural formation of the granite.

New Quarry: Here one of our directors and the quarry manager discuss the properties of the new quarry. In the intermediate foreground (the middle left of the image) you can see some of the test blocks that have been extracted.

New Road: Once a new quarry has started to be opened, a new roadway is required to allow various machinery into the quarry. As you can see, the roadway is excavated out of the hillside, and showing in this image is the first stage of this process. A bulldozer is then run over it to smooth it down to make the ride easier for the lorries in and out of the quarry.

Quarry Geology: This image shows the unusual geology of our Dolerite Black quarry from which we extract some of the best granite which can be purchased anywhere in the world. As you can see, there was at least 6 metres (20 feet) of overburden before we actually reached the sheet rock bed.

Block Squaring: After excavation, our rough blocks are made rectangular so that as little waste as possible is exported to the customer, thus saving transportation and shipping costs. This is also labour saving for the customer and ecologically sound since there is no point in shipping waste.

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