Het Kornelsbergske quarry, Sibbe, Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Netherlandsi
Regional Level Types | |
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Het Kornelsbergske quarry | Quarry |
Sibbe | Village |
Valkenburg aan de Geul | Municipality |
Limburg | Province |
Netherlands | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
50° 50' 58'' North , 5° 50' 3'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Sibbe | 1,015 (2017) | 0.8km |
IJzeren | 295 (2017) | 1.2km |
Oud-Valkenburg | 125 (2017) | 1.5km |
Valkenburg | 3,400 (2017) | 1.7km |
Strucht | 380 (2017) | 1.9km |
Nearest Clubs:
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Club | Location | Distance |
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Vieille Montagne Heritage | Kelmis / La Calamine, Belgium | 20km |
Mindat Locality ID:
437306
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:437306:6
GUID (UUID V4):
7669def5-26d1-4505-9eb0-df50fdec8efc
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Het Cornelsbergske quarry
The Groeve het Kornelsbergske or Groeve het Cornelsbergske is a marl quarry in the Dutch municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul in South Limburg. The underground quarry is located southeast of Valkenburg on the Sibbergrubbe on the northeastern edge of the Margraten Plateau in the transition to the Geuldal. At the site, the plateau plunges steeply for several meters.
Directly southeast of the quarry is the Groeve het Paulusbergske,
on the other side of the Sibbergrubbe is the Groeve Lemmekenskoel,
about 200 meters to the northeast are the Vallenberg Quarry and the Groeve van de Verdwenen Honden and about 100 meters to the south is the Groeve the Nullelokske.
From the 17th to the 19th century, the quarry was mined by block crushers for the extraction of limestone.
The quarry has an area of 169 square meters with 42 meters of corridor length.
Commodity List
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Other Databases
Wikipedia: | https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groeve_het_Kornelsbergske |
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Wikidata ID: | Q71986524 |
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