An uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland is the source of all the granite that has been used to craft Olympic curling stones for nearly a century. Volcanic rock from Ailsa Craig ...

Whoever buys it will have the distinct honor of sharing a part of Winter Olympics history. Ailsa Craig has been a source of granite used in every official Olympic curling event. Kay’s of Scotland, a ...

Kays Curling, based in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, employs 10 people on site and has the sole rights to quarry for granite on Ailsa Craig. PIC: Contributed. Managing director Jim English ...

More importantly, the island contains rare varieties of micro-granite with a mineral called riebeckite known as Ailsa Craig common green granite and Ailsa Craig blue hone granite, the latter being of ...

They are hand-crafted at Kays Curling's workshop in Mauchline, Ayrshire, using granite from the island of Ailsa Craig. The company's stones are the only ones used in competition by the World ...

Just off the southwest coast of Scotland, the island of Ailsa Craig is made up entirely of granite. Less than two kilometres long and about 335 metres high, the island has no human inhabitants.

But by this weekend a consignment of stone from Ailsa Craig will have made its way to ... the common Ailsa and blue hone granite, considered perfect for curling stones. When Rhona Martin of ...

A winter sports firm has applied for planning permission to take about 30,000 tonnes of granite from Ailsa Craig. Bosses at Kay Curling also want to erect a cabin and bridges on the windswept island.

For sale: one Scottish island. Sitting tenants: several seal families, 40,000 gannets and thousands more kittiwakes, puffins, razorbills, herring gulls and guillemots. And the price? £2.5-2.75 ...

THE sight of the greenish-grey hump of Ailsa Craig rising out of the waves often stirs fond memories. This granite jewel of the Firth of Clyde has become a familiar landmark for generations of ...