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PHOTO ESSAY: Scottish island Ailsa Craig is the granite source for Olympic curling stones

Posted 12/18/25

Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited isle off the coast of southwest Scotland and the source of the super-dense granite used to make curling stones for the Winter Olympics. It features both “common …

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