Check out the damage 68 TONS of explosives can do to a quarry

In need of more rock to produce concrete, quarry workers in Norway got to have a little fun with a hell of a lot of explosives.

Check out the damage 68 TONS of explosives can do to a quarry

68 tons of explosives were needed in fact, all to loosen a 20 metre-high rock wall at the Bremanger Quarry in the country.

Explosive experts had to painstakingly make 454 holes in the rock to insert the huge amount of explosives needed to blow up the entire length of the wal.

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