Our Sullom Mine is a hard rock quarry mainly comprising of Green Schists and Graphitic Schists. The quarry began as a mine in 1954 when a Canadian Group mined a Magnetite ore-body which exists in the quarry. The Magnetite was extracted, crushed down to dust then exported.

At present we crush and screen rock to provide a large range of various sized aggregates and mixes. We supply the public, builders, Civil Engineering contractors and our own projects with materials from the quarry.

We also produce a range of red granite aggregates which is extremely popular for decorative purposes in gardens and drives, etc. The Red Granite is sourced from a small quarry at Haggrister located two miles from the Sullom Mine. There is no quarry facilities permitted at Haggrister so we blast and haul the rock to the Sullom Mine for crushing and screening.

Blue Quarry Materials
Name	Size / Grading	Description
Scalpings	20 > 0 mm	Lesser quality materials used for track roads and hard standings
4" Crusher Run	100 > 0 mm	Good material used in road construction
4" Clean	100 > 60 mm	Clean stone used in drainage and septic tank applications
Soup Plates	150 > 100 mm	Used for gabion baskets etc. Available on request
As Dug Face Rock	Armour to Dust	Rock taken directly from a blast at the quarry face
Primary Armour		Large selected armour stone mainly for coastal protection applications
Secondary Armour	0.5 m3	Smaller selected armour stone used behind Primary Armour
Dust	6 > 0 mm	Light material used as bedding for cables, bedding for slabs and blinding for driveway and slab construction
10 mm All in	10 > 0 mm	All in mix of chips and dust which can be used as concrete mix or for hard standing areas
20 mm All in	20 > 0 mm	All in mix of chips and dust which can be used as concrete mix or for hard standing areas
Type 1	40 > 0 mm	Well graded granular material used as a sub-base layer in road construction
6 mm Chips	6 > 4 mm	Small chip used for sports multi-court slabs
10 mm Chips	10 mm	Light chip suitable for sewer/water pipe bedding
14 mm Chips	14 mm	Medium sized chip used for concrete, driveway and pipe bedding applications
20 mm Chips	20 mm	Medium sized chip used for concrete, driveway and pipe bedding applications
40 mm Chips	40 mm	Large clean chip used as drain fill for field drains etc.
Red Quarry Materials
Harl	6 > 4 mm	Sharp, strong and bright red coloured Harling chip
10 mm Chips	10 mm	Small chips used for decorative purposes in gardens and drives etc.
20 mm Chips	20 mm	Medium sized chip used for decorative purposes in gardens and drives etc.
40 mm Chips	40 mm	Courser sized chip used for decorative purposes in gardens and drives etc.
Type 1	40 > 0 mm	Used by the local council Highways division to brighten up the road side verges
Dust	6 > 0 mm	Good sharp dust and very close to a course sand
Others
Concrete Mix	20 or 10 mm	We mix our Blue chips with Red dust to make a very strong concrete mix aggregate
Sand		Building or Plastering sand is available from our quarry on request

Above: Stockpile of Red Aggregate	Above: Haggrister Red granite quarry