Anticipating environmental policies

Even if Neuburg Siliceous Earth is extracted in an way that is as environmentally acceptable as possible, it is still interfering with nature. For this reason, many decades before the start-up of a new quarry, HOFFMANN MINERAL is already planning how it can be subsequently re-integrated into the relevant ecosystem. In collaboration with the Mining Office, foresters, nature protection officials and owners, both economic and ecological interests are harmonized. Only natural materials are used for back-filling all the strata. The precious top soil is stored separately when the initial excavation work is carried out so that it can be used again later for recultivation.

A good deal of hard work and considerable resources go into the creation of completely new biotopes, for example. A combined concept of recultivation and renaturation measures are applied. Recultivation is the term used to describe the restoring of a cultural landscape after raw materials have been extracted. Renaturing promotes a natural landscape in the original sense, as it was before humans intervened. Here, the individual areas are left to be taken over by nature on its own. This not only creates areas that can be used for forestry and agriculture, but also provides habitats and safe areas for rate species of animals and plants, providing new opportunities for the diversity of nature!