BLASTING AWAY A MOUNTAIN - SIDE: SPECTACULAR EXPLOSION AT ARGYLLSHIRE GRANITE QUARRIES, SCOTLAND A view of the explosion at Bonawe, the centre of an extensive Argyllshire granite-quarrying district, on May 31. when more than a million tons of granite were shifted with the one shot. Twenty tons of gunpowder were used, and 700 people had to vacate their homes in the district untd the explosion was over.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22141, 21 June 1935, Page 8
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66BLASTING AWAY A MOUNTAIN – SIDE: SPECTACULAR EXPLOSION AT ARGYLLSHIRE GRANITE QUARRIES, SCOTLAND A view of the explosion at Bonawe, the centre of an extensive Argyllshire granite-quarrying district, on May 31. when more than a million tons of granite were shifted with the one shot. Twenty tons of gunpowder were used, and 700 people had to vacate their homes in the district untd the explosion was over. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22141, 21 June 1935, Page 8
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