International co-operation

Togeth­er with our part­ners the world­wide Ger­man cham­bers of com­merce, the BDI, the BGR and the Ger­man Min­er­al Agency (DERA), the VDMA, the Northrhine West­falian net­work for min­ing eco­nom­ics and with the com­pe­tent fed­er­al and state depart­ments and min­istries there are cur­rent­ly a vari­ety of ini­tia­tives active in order to improve the frame­work for com­pa­nies to enter into the inter­na­tion­al min­ing spheres.

By sup­port of the Ger­man fed­er­al untied finan­cial cred­it instru­ment finance for inter­na­tion­al min­er­al projects can be real­ized and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly secured. The explo­ration sup­port pro­gram of the Ger­man fed­er­al gov­ern­ment mean­while has expired, but fol­low-up pro­grams are cur­rent­ly being dis­cussed. On EU lev­el a min­er­als strat­e­gy has been found­ed in order to enable use of local min­er­als and improve entrance to crit­i­cal min­er­als. With­in the frame­work of the EU inno­va­tion part­ner­ship there are cur­rent­ly again funds avail­able.

Bilat­er­al min­er­al co-oper­a­tions with Chile, Peru, Mon­go­lia and Kaza­khstan as well as Cana­da sup­port to facil­i­tate future min­er­als projects. Project finance via stock notes can be devel­oped at TSX. In San­ti­a­go de Chile, in Toron­to as well as in Johan­nes­burg cen­tres for min­ing com­pe­tences have been opened up to serve as focal point for Ger­man com­pa­nies. Thus, the frame­work for Ger­man com­pa­nies in inter­na­tion­al min­ing are well on way of con­tin­u­ous improve­ment.