Point of interest Tellin - Stone quarry - Photo

Stone quarry

Description

On your right hand side, you can see a stone quarry. Man has worked limestone here since the 6th century AD, but we have no hard evidence of when the locals started exploiting the quarry. It produces a very fine grained limestone with white speckles. In 1946, the quarry was merged with another quarry (in activity since 1868) that lies a little higher in the village. But the relations with the villagers quickly deteriorated when new mining techniques were employed, causing an increasingly deeper rift between the villagers and the quarry managers. Noise pollution, dust and gas were more and more harmful to village life and, in 1985 the Walloon Region decided not to renew the quarry’s mining permit.

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5.8 km | 7.6 km-effort
1h 20min
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Country:
Belgium
Region :
Wallonia
Department/Province :
Luxembourg
Municipality :
Tellin
Location:
Unknown
Creation date :
2018-04-09 10:25:45.662
Updated on
2021-06-04 11:20:11.224

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