Blue Eyes Anorthorsite Granite From Canada

24
Aug/090

Blue Eyes Anorthorsite Granite From Canada

Torngait Ujaganniavingit Corporation (T.U.C.) operates the most northernly dimension stone quarried in Canada. It is also the only dimension stone quarry in the world run exclusively by Inuit people located at Ten Mile Bay Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada. TUC is owned by The Labrador Inuit Development Corporation.

The world's natural stone industry knows our stone as "Blue Eyes". This rare semi precious gemstone is a plagiochase feldspar anorthosite found only in the world in one location which is Northern Labrador which is now known as the circumpolar Inuit Territory of Nunatsiavut, Canada.

Blue Eyes Anorthosite Granite

Limited Availability

This stone comes from the sub-arctic region of northern Labrador. It is quarried, to order, only four months of the year, weather permitting. It is quarried in a manner that keeps the quarry environmentally consistent and compatible with the area.

Background

Blue Eyes is quarried by the Inuit, the aboriginal people that populate the arctic and sub-arctic; through their native corporation the Labrador Inuit Development Corporation. The quarry is located in northern Labrador on an island in what's referred to Ten Mile Bay. When visiting the quarry you are likely to spot a pod of whales, as you are to see a polar bear.

The Inuit have been stewards of the prestine sub-arctic since before there was time. Continuing that stewardship today, they warrent the following about Blue Eyes and how it's Quarried: It is quarried in a manner that keeps the quarry environmentally consistent and compatible with the area.

The quarry has been developed to make the site ecologically renewable. The Labrador Inuit Development Corporation prides itself on ensuing that its employment practices are consistent with the highest human rights standards in the quarrying of "Blue Eyes". Blue Eyes is the only stone, commercially available which can claim of environmental compatibility, ecologically renewable and that children have not been used in its production.