One of the oldest and difficult professions in history is quarry. Mountains have been flattened as our streets gets paved, concretes get richer and pillars are strengthened.No different from this is a quarry site owned by Mr. Fritz Surer.
The quarry serves stones of different sizes for different contraction activities in Basel.
This was no "cool" place to be on Switzerland day with the highest temperature record. A real African sun this was.
Fortunately for us, we met Henry who took time to excort us around the quarry site.
The stones are brought off the mountain with bull dozer tracks with a kind of hammer drill bit.
No explosives -dynamites- are used in this site he explained.
He also explained how the stones are serperated after breakdown and crashing, according to their sizes and sand content.
Also exposed to, was the Galvanised iorn- zinc caged stone walls. They currently were preparing a large amount for noise dampling along the autobahn close to muttenz. He took time to enlighten us on the manufatury process.
Later in the afternoon, we met Aunt Verena and had a lunch buffet at a Chinese restaurant at liestal.
She gave us all wonderful presents. Presents that are even now, very very much appreciated.
We had a surprised visit from her later the evening, with her two dogs.
Another day, full of surprises and joy this was.. A day of love. God richly bless Aunts Verena.
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