deep geothermics

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Mining law

The extraction of lignite from opencast mines is also subject to mining law

Every industrialised economy is dependent on a secure supply of raw materials. Manufacturing industry and the energy sector in particular require immense amounts of such materials. It is for this reason that Germany extracts its own deposits and also imports significant amounts of those raw materials which are not available domestically. read more

The Umweltbundesamt

For our environment