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The remoteness of the Glensanda settlement is such that there are no road, rail, or marked footway links across the [[granite]] mountain, moor, heather and [[peat bog]] of the private Glensanda estate. The only practical access is by boat from the shores of Loch Linnhe.
Since 1982 the {{convert|2400|ha|acre|adj=on}} Glensanda Estate has been the home of the Glensanda Superquarry created by [[Foster Yeoman]], since acquired by the [[Aggregate Industries]] group, which mines the Meall na h-Easaiche mountain,<ref>
==History==
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[[File:Glensanda and quarry.jpg|thumb|left|The quarry]]
[[File:Kreiselbrecher.JPG|thumb|right|Top of the Gloryhole]]
In 1976 the UK Government commissioned [[Sir Ralph Verney, 5th Baronet|Sir Ralph Verney]] to analyse the shortage of aggregates for building. The resulting "Verney report" led John Yeoman, Chairman of Foster Yeoman, to the idea of a super-quarry situated in a remote location from which stone could be exported by sea. To this end in 1982 he bought the {{convert|2400|ha|acre|adj=on}} Glensanda estate in Argyll{{r|Hub4}} from Mrs Patricia Strutt who also owned the Kingairloch estate which she also sold to Foster Yeoman in 1989.<ref name="Kingairloch">
To minimise visual impact from the coast the quarry is sited {{convert|1|mi|km|abbr=on}} inland, and cut down into the mountain {{convert|1600|ft|m|abbr=on|sigfig=1}} above sea level. Each explosive blast dislodges about 70,000 tons of granite, which is transported by dump truck to the primary crusher, which reduces it to lumps no bigger than nine inches in diameter.{{r|Indy}} It is then transferred by conveyor belt to a heap that covers the "glory hole", a {{convert|1000|ft|m|abbr=on}} vertical shaft {{convert|10|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} in diameter, which is permanently full of rocks. At the base of the glory hole, deep inside the mountain, rocks are transferred to a horizontal conveyor and moved through a {{convert|1|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} tunnel to the second crusher on the shore, where oceangoing ships are loaded in the deep-water docks at the rate of 6,000 tons per hour.{{r|Indy}}
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<ref name="CamUni">[http://google.com/search?q=cache:HdCUu92FPcMJ:www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/macinnes/imthesis8.pdf+%22loch+corry%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk Manuscripts - MacLean Sinclair 1899: p282] Cambridge University</ref>
<ref name="EdiUni">[http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townhistory5507.html Kingairloch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226093758/http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townhistory5507.html |date=26 December 2005 }} University of Edinburgh, Gazetteer for Scotland</ref>
<ref name="EdiUni2">[http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst4772.html Kingairloch House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020163029/http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst4772.html |date=20 October 2012 }} University of Edinburgh, Gazetteer for Scotland</ref>
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<ref name="OxfordCompanion1">''Oxford Companion to Scottish History'' p. 161 162, edited by Michael Lynch, Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-923482-0}}</ref>
<ref name="RCAHMS">[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23081/details/glensanda+castle/ Glensanda] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329042842/http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23081/details/glensanda+castle/ |date=29 March 2012 }} Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland</ref>
<ref name="RCAHMS-King">[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/107176/details/kingairloch+house/ Kingairloch House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329042944/http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/107176/details/kingairloch+house/ |date=29 March 2012 }} Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland</ref>
<ref name="MacHist">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GZDRnxhDmUkC&pg=PA154 ''A History of the Clan Maclean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period including a genealogical account of some of the principal Families together with their Heraldry, Legends, Superstitions etc.''] by [[John Patterson MacLean|J. P. MacLean]], 1889, p. 263.</ref>
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<ref name="Telegraph">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1346775/Patricia-Strutt.html Patricia Strutt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717004827/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1346775/Patricia-Strutt.html |date=17 July 2017 }} ''Daily Telegraph'', Obituaries, 6 July 2000</ref>
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<ref name="Watson">Watson, ''Celtic Place-names of Scotland'', p. 122.</ref>
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==External links==
* [http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23081/details/glensanda+castle/ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - Glensanda Castle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329042842/http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23081/details/glensanda+castle/ |date=29 March 2012 }}
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