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§ 08 · Inside the quarry
Nineteen years of rock
A family business that started with one excavator and a borrowed tipper, and now crushes for a good share of the slabs poured in Kano. Example history for this demo.
Our story
Granite Peak began in 2007, when Alhaji Sani Danladi (an example founder) leased a granite outcrop east of the city and hired a single excavator to break rock for his own building jobs. Neighbours started asking to buy the stone, and within two years selling stone had become the business.
The first crusher arrived in 2010. The weighbridge came in 2013, after a long argument about a load that a customer swore was short. Since then every load has been weighed, and nobody has argued.
Today the company employs 140 people, runs 34 trucks and crushes around 1,800 tonnes on a normal day. The founder’s daughter, Engr. Zainab Danladi, runs operations; her brother runs the fleet. Example people for this demo.
We still sell to the small builder with one plot as carefully as to the estate developer with two hundred. Most of our customers started small too.
From one excavator
2007
Outcrop leased, first excavator hired, stone sold to neighbours.
2010
First jaw crusher and screens. Three products.
2013
Weighbridge installed. Every load weighed since.
2019
Cone crusher, lab container and the third screen deck.
2023
Six 30-tonne trailers join the fleet for estate roads.
2026
Online ordering, the truckload calculator and booked windows.
Everyone goes home
A quarry is a dangerous place. We run it so it does not feel like one.
Blasting happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays at eleven, after sirens and a full sweep of the bench. Nobody, not even the founder, is on the bench during a blast.
Everyone on site wears a hard hat, boots, high visibility vest and ear protection near the crusher. Visitors are walked by a guide and stay on the marked path.
Dust is kept down with water sprays on the crusher and the haul road. In the harmattan we run the sprays all day.
We hold a toolbox talk every Monday morning before work starts, in Hausa and English.
Good neighbours
The villages around the pit were here first. We try to remember that.
We grade the feeder road to the two nearest villages every dry season, and our water bowser fills the village tanks when the borehole pumps fail.
Sixty per cent of our staff live within ten kilometres of the pit. We train local young people as loader operators and drivers every year, with a paid apprenticeship of six months.
Blast times are announced at the mosques the day before, and we keep a hotline for neighbours to call if anything cracks or shakes more than it should. Example programme for this demo.
Who you will speak to
Example team members for this demo.
Operations
Engr. Zainab D.
Runs the pit, the crusher and the lab. Ask her anything about grading.
Dispatch
Hauwa M.
Knows where every truck is. Calls you when it is ten minutes out.
Sales
Abdullahi K.
Reads your drawings and turns them into tonnes and trips.