The quarry was first officially opened in the late 1700s by the Duke of Argyll but did not operate for long because the marble was difficult to extract and transport was uneconomical There was a failed enterprise by the Argyll Quarry Company in the 1800s which hoped to extract the stone and ship it from the island on an industrial scale
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