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Thanks to the recovery of more than 2000 tons of the precious granite coming from'' island from the curious shape of the stone company Kays Scontland will get out of a batch of 10 thousand stones already booked by the World Curling Federation
Monday 11 November 2013 2 minutes reading time
'' An ancient legend says that when he pulled the'' last set of stone (granite needed to achieve 16 stones) from the reserve of Ailsa Craig, located under British rule and of Special Scientific Interest, the world will fall l'' Armagedon. The day of judgment is postponed for the time being since the new provision was not necessary to invoke'' opening of a new quarry to collect the rare cocktail of minerals that makes it so special Blue Hone, which is realized in particular the crown which rests directly on the ice.
Despite efforts with other similar types of magmatic rock nobody has guaranteed the same porosity and elasticity, an essential feature for the'' tool that weighs almost 20 pounds. Since 2004, about 70 percent of stone that are used around the world on the slopes of curling comes from'' volcanic island in the Firth of Clyde,'' deep inlet that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Scottish peninsula of Kintyre.
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