The State Supervision of the Mines (SodM) is a Dutch service, established on April 21, 1810, and is responsible for monitoring and enforcing legal provisions such as those applicable to the detection, recovery, storage and transportation of minerals . The service is also asked for advice on (construction) projects above collapse areas (such as the Casino in Valkenburg) and above mining vessels (such as the CBS building in Heerlen). History
In 1810 the Netherlands was governed by French and on April 21, 1810, the French Mining Act was introduced. This law provided for, inter alia, the establishment of the State Supervision of Mine. In particular, South Limburg received the coal mining with the introduction of this law which set conditions for the extraction of minerals such as coal, lignite, salt, petroleum and marl.
The Mining Act also governed property rights. Previously, the honest winner had the property rights and since the law determined the State who was authorized for mining mining. Various conditions were laid down regarding social and safety aspects. The extraction could only be done under the guidance of technically skilled personnel, including mining engineers, minometers and physicians. It was also forbidden to work for children under ten years in the mines, which until then often happened because they could work well in small spaces because of their length. Also, the law could follow the draft horses who pulled the coal cars out of the mine.
Checking this new regulation was done by the engineer of the mines, the engineer of the mines located in Liège. This board from Liège continued to stand in Dutch South Limburg beyond the Belgian Revolution, where Belgium became independent of the Netherlands.
As of July 1, 1839, the Netherlands received its own "engineer of the mines" who had his seat in the Netherlands, this was Mr. F.D.J. Büttgenbach. Among his attention were the marl groves, the Domanial Mine and smaller mines Bleyerheide and Neuprick. His place was Kerkrade in the administration building of the Domanial Mine and was then the only official employed by the mining. Letters and reports were prepared in German and French and the engineer received 250 guilders a year.
Over time, the ministry engineer's headquarters moved quite a bit between the cities of Kerkrade, Heerlen and Maastricht, which was often dependent on the location of the engineer in the early years.
In May 1959 a gas was discovered in the bottom of Groningen which was further won in the subsequent period. Due to this development, the service was quickly expanded and a property in Heerlen was involved.
Due to developments in gas and oil extraction, it was not long before a dependence was opened in the west of the Netherlands. The service was located in Heerlen and The Hague in 1967.
The closure of the mines in southern Limburg put pressure on the Lord's office of the service. After successful successful protests by the employees of the Heerlän branch, the service eventually moved to The Hague and became The Hague on July 9, 1985, as the headquarters for State Supervision of the Mine. Although the service moved to The Hague, there were still some tasks in Limburg.
In September 2010, the service as a whole disappeared from Limburg, when the last official stopped his work and the work was taken over by some officials in the province of Limburg. After that, the service will only be in The Hague. The only operational mine in Limburg that was still under supervision of the SodM in 2010 was the marl grove Sibbergroeve.
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