How do you buy a quarry?

[mjgreen]

Originally Posted by mala

get your solicitor to search the land registry for the owner and make them an offer they can,t refuse.
then speak to the local council about your plans.
check where the water comes from and if its still there in the summer.
if it's shallow ,silty ,cold, and you have a helicopter to put in it you should be fine.

2p

Search the land registry yourself online

And I'd speak to the council first, since if the result is negative you'd otherwise have wasted ur money

Originally Posted by Ian@1904

Banks will fund valid business cases, but they are risk averse. So what is your personal track record on delivering successful businesses, how much money will you personally invest as cash. Business Angels are good for innovative businesses, but want a substantial share of the profits, with an increasing share if you do not personally deliver on the results

Business angels won't touch it with a barge pole - not least because its not scalable & most dive quarries barely make enough money to get by (Stoney being the obvious exception)

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Luke_T

Just a random thought, but how the heck do you buy a quarry... the likes of stoney etc. Let's say there was a quarry in the North East of England that was abandoned how would oyu go about buying it and making it a suitable diving site?

It's just a block of land with a hole in it, so presumably it would be the same as buying a block of land without a hole in it.

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by ray

Hi.

Buy the deepest biggest quarry that you can, you then fill it full of landfill, charge thousands/millions to fill it.

Walk away with a grin on your face, buy a large boat and go dive in the sea.

There are enough duck ponds to dive in!.

Better still, find a hill made of suitable rock/gravel, dig it out and charge $20 a cubic metre for it, thgen after a couple of years, sell the space you made by removing the rock at $40 a cubic metre, running the two operations simultaneously sise by side.

[pompeygreg]

Don't forget a nice expensive fence around the outside to stop the local hoodies from accidently drowning themselves.

I thought I saw a quarry for sale next to Goonhilly. At least it was last time I drove down to Porthkerris.

Greg