In November 1990, the Labrador Inuit Development Corporation (LIDC) and the Department of Mines and Energy (DME) quarried a 10 tonne test block of one of the old Brinex test sites. Despite a lack of equipment with which to handle the block, representatives of the LIDC managed to transport it to Nain using 45 gallon drums for floatation and the high tides for lifting it out of the low tide zone where it had landed after being blasted from the rock surface. A Marine Atlantic vessel plucked the block out of the ocean at Nain and transported it to St Johns, Newfoundland, where it was containerized and shipped to Italy. Market response was extremely positive  Five blocks were quarried from this site in the fall of 1991, but again there was no equipment on the site to load the blocks onto the boat, and they were never shipped.

Equipment purchases and transportation took several months, and it was not until September of 1992 that a 50 metre long barge was towed north to the site, with second-hand equipment from Quebec, including a large loader, two quarry drills mounted on airtracks, a lightweight horizontal drill and compressor. Over a 55 day period that fall, only 20 working days were achieved, in part due to weather but largely due to the equipment breakdowns and the time required to get the new parts up to Nain. The opening of the Quarry was carried out under the supervision of two experienced quarrymen from a Lac St. Jean company, Granimax Ltd., and production totalled 16 blocks. A small pier had been built at the new site to unload the equipment, and was also used to load the blocks directly into a small ship using the front end loader. These blocks were shipped to Quebec City an loaded onto a larger vessel bound for Italy.

During the winter of 1993 the quarry crew from Nain undertook further training. Two people went to Italy to work in granite quarries, and four people completed a surface drilling and blasting course in Springdale, Newfoundland. The equipment was left on the site over the winter, and with minor servicing was operational in June. two nine person crews from Nain, working alternate 4 day shifts at the quarry, produced 30 blocks in the first 30 working days of 1993. the small loading pier, however, was shortened by 8 metres when the ice went out, and once again loading blocks into the boats at the site was to become a major obstacle to shipping. A 45 tonne mobile crane was bought and moved on to the site to load the blocks (20 tonne and above) could not be loaded by the crane until a deep water wharf was constructed, which would allow the barge or a ship to get closer to shore. The first shipment of blocks n the 1993 season was transferred to Argentia, Newfoundland and the second shipment at Quebec City, to the larger ships destined to Italy.

Torngait Ujaganniavingit Corporation (TUC) is involved in the production of dimension stone, is 100% owned by LIDC, with revenues in excess of $5-6 million, and assets valued in excess of $15 million. TUC was set up in 1990 and commenced dimension stone production at its Ten Mile Bay Quarry in 1992.

During 1994 operating year, more than 500 cubic metres of trimmed, salable block was produced, which steadily increased to an absolute maximum of 2500 cubic meteres at its peak.  Since then production has leveled off at its maximum current production rate of 1500 cubic metres per operation year. Because of our remote location, the quarry can only operate for four months during the summer. Work crews and supervisors are well trained and experienced by virtue of the past years of development and operation.  During that time, practical experience has also developed in equipment procurement, equipment maintenance and logistics. The extracted raw stone is shipped to Italy, and then sold to various processing plants all over the world. In 2000, a second quarry was developed at Igiak Bay, Labrador approximately 40 kilometres by boat from Nain. This quarry produced a similar material to that quarried at Ten Mile Bay. The Igiak stone however, is a different colour, brownish granite with multicoloured crystals while at Ten Mile Bay, the stone is grey with blue crystals.  The Igiak site is currently not in production but seeking market interests.

The ongoing success of the Ten Mile Bay Quarry has evolved into a development of four (4) additional support Business Units and has employed up to a maximum total, at its peak, of 100 people in quarrying, processing, construction and marketing.