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Scottish island Ailsa Craig is the source of granite used to make curling stones

Scottish island Ailsa Craig is the source of granite used to make cu…

Every Olympic curling stone begins on Ailsa Craig, a tiny uninhabited island off Scotland.🥌 The island produces the ultra-dense granite, including the rare “blue hone,” found nowhere else in the world, used to make the 44-pound stones seen at the Winter Olympics.

Every Olympic curling stone begins on Ailsa Craig, a tiny uninhabited i…

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Watch rock for world-class curling stones being quarried in Scotland

Watch rock for world-class curling stones being quarried in Scotland

Ailsa Craig, an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland, has provided the unique granite used to make Olympic curling stones for over a century. CNN speaks to Scottish video creator Ruth Aisling about her visit to the island and how the stones are harvested. #cnn #news

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A short video from 1947 looking at daily life on the island of Ailsa Craig, also known as 'Paddy's Milestone', off the Ayrshire coast. In this clip we see people quarrying the rock with hand chisels and "gentle gunpowder" to break it into 100 pound (45 kilo) lumps to be transformed into curling stones. Despite the narration of the video (possibly correct at the time of making), there are in fact 2 sources of the right type of granite for curling stones - the other being the Trefor Granite Quarry

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Turning Granite into Gold: Ailsa Craig, the Uninhabited Scottish Island Behind Curling Stones 🥌

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