Steltenberg quarry
| Steltenberg quarry | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Open pit | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Hohenlimburg lime works | ||
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| Degradation of | limestone | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 21 '15.4 " N , 7 ° 35' 6.1" E | ||
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| Location | Hohenlimburg | ||
| City ( NUTS3 ) | Hagen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Steltenberg quarry is located on the 257 meter high Steltenberg in the Steltenberg landscape protection area, Oege in the Hohenlimburg district of Hagen , Oege district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). To the east is the Iserlohn district of Letmathe . In the west, the Steltenberg nature reserve borders with the abandoned Rolloch quarry . The operator is the Hohenlimburg lime works .
geology
Is mined Massenkalk from a former coral reefs of Givetiums and the Upper Devonian . In addition to limestone and dolomite rock , there are karst chutes that are filled with younger sediments such as sands, silts , clays, green sand and quartz gravel. There are very well-preserved fossils in the HKW quarry, where the mass limestone is dolomitized in places , but marly (calcareous-clayey) rocks, bituminous shale and in crevices also fossil-rich loose rocks are inserted in other areas. The fauna is a typical Upper Givetian (382 - 375 million years old) "Stringunc fauna", which is determined by the brachiopods Stringocephalus burtini ("owl's head") and Uncites gryphus . In the fissures there are minerals such as calcite in several varieties, quartz , pyrite , barite , malachite , manganese , limonite and hematite .
View from the castle
Water funnel quarry Steltenberg
processing
3D terrain model of the quarry
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Rolloch quarry in Hagen-Hohenlimburg. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hohenlimburger Kalkwerke - Info and Video [1]
- ↑ Mineral Atlas - Fossil Atlas. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ City of Hagen - Geotopes - HKW quarry [2]