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 ...

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 ...

It’s played with brooms and a shiny stone that’s made exclusively from rare granite mined on Ailsa Craig. (For the uninitiated, here’s how L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke describes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are heaps of waste granite pieces, out of which the spheroidal ... but in places the route leads over steeply-inclined slabs. Ailsa Craig is noted for its immense gannet colony, which ...

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 ...

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.

The 220 acre site boasts a ruined castle, a small cottage, a lighthouse and a granite quarry. Ailsa Craig is also home to one of the largest gannet colonies in the world, with about 36,000 ...

Ailsa Craig, the 245-acre island off Girvan, Ayrshire, is famous for being home to the granite used for Olympic curling stones and its colonies of protected birds. It was put on sale last year by ...