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Giant’s Causeway visitors causing damage by wedging coins into cracks

Authorities ask public to end tradition of leaving coins that rust and expand, harming rocks at world heritage siteVisitors are damaging the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland by wedging coins into the cracks of the basalt columns, causing the rocks to stain and crumble.The coins rust and expand to three times their original thickness, corroding and fracturing the world heritage site, authorities said on Wednesday. Continue reading...


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