The city of Aberdeen in northeast Scotland is the Granite City. The granite was quarried from Rubislaw Quarry which is within the city of Aberdeen. The quarry closed about 30 years ago because there was no more granite left. When it was fully operational, it was the deepest quarry in Europe at 450 feet deep.
Spaulding Lake was and always be a quarry. It is deep and cold.
A place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.
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John E. Stith has written: 'Deep Quarry' 'All for Naught'
I dived it in Dec and, the deepest i could find was 7.4m.
The book "Legend of the Deep Lagoon" by Roger Grubbs has 238 pages.
Because most of the buildings were built of granite which was quarried locally at Rubislaw Quarry. When the quarry was operational, it was the deepest in Europe but it is now closed (because the granite has all been used up) and has been infilled with waste matter from the city.
A quarry is a large, deep pit in the ground. From a quarry, you get stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate. Marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone are cut from slabs and removed from the quarry.
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The quarry was huge.He was a supervisor at the local granite quarry.
This past week I visited a limestone quarry that has been mining limestone in one place for 40 years. In that time, they will have mined millions of tons of limestone. Usually nearly ALL the rock is limestone, so the answer will depend on the size (area) of the quarry, how deep you can mine, and presence of any "trash" rock.