Canaan is Home to the Coolest Looking Quarry in All of Connecticut

Every once in a while I take a wrong turn and find something that I've never seen before, it happened up in the Northwest corner of Connecticut over the weekend, I took a wrong turn and somehow ended up looking at the coolest looking quarry in all of Connecticut.

Connecticut is not Alaska, Nevada, or even Pennsylvania, where vast stretches of virgin ground have sat undisturbed for millions of years. We do live upon one of the world's finest selections of garnets, but Connecticut is not oil or gold rich. Global companies have tapped into our natural resources over time, and the one that I found operating in Canaan is called Specialty Minerals by Minerals Technologies. According to the company website, Specialty Minerals operates in 32 countries across the globe, generates $2.2 billion in annual sales, and has over 4,000 employees. Their operation is located right below the intersection of Routes 44 and 7, not far from the Massachusetts/Connecticut border. What a striking sight among the winter browns and grays, it's a blindingly white stone quarry, with shockingly blue water at the bottom.

I know I've been watching too many years of Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel, but every time I drive by a ragtag group of laborers in heavy equipment moving the earth around, I have to stop and see what they're doing. The Minerals Technologies quarry is located off of Lower Road in Canaan, and I drove by after taking a wrong turn. Everything is fenced off, with no trespassing signs posted at every turn, but it's quite a sight to see instead of the giant wind turbines.