To extract the granite from a quarry digging
Aberdeen in Scotland, which is constructed principally from local granite, is known as "The Granite City". Because of its abundance, granite was commonly used to build foundations for homes in New England. The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s. With increasing amounts of acid rain in parts of the world, granite has begun to supplant marble as a monument material, since it is much more durable.
To extract the granite from a quarry digging, cutting and blasting techniques are used. Granite quarries can be huge and the excavation of the granite can go very deep. The mining process involves many workers and some very specialist huge pieces of equipment in order to mine and move the massive pieces of granite from the earth.