Gold panning for tourists: The search for Rheingold is also worth a grand scale.
gray-green sea water simmers. Slowly emerges a huge bucket of white swirls. Thick steel cables pull the laden with 20 tons of rocks, mud and sand from the gripper Kiessee. In the former course of the Rhine north of Karlsruhe, the Swiss building materials group Holcim dig for raw materials for cement production.
In the Palatine location Rheinzabern the Swiss 500,000 to 600,000 tons promote gravel and sand in the year - but also happen to be a couple of kilograms of gold. The building materials company is Germany's only official gold producer. With illustrative examples like this Rheingold, the author finds Christoph Seidler: Germany is surprisingly rich in resources.
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In his new book "Germany's hidden resources" is the "Spiegel Online" journalist on home tour. He visited places where surprisingly natural resources rest. He explores old mines in the Ore Mountains and cruises to Germany's only oil rig Mittelplate National Park Schleswig-Holstein. The author clearly shows that Germany against all the prophecies of doom and gloom definitely still has remarkable natural resources.
He promotes it sometimes amazing and surprising projects revealed showing that the long-dead believed mining in Germany is definitely still alive - and perhaps still has a glorious future ahead of him. Certainly, many deposits are exhausted. The German oil exploration about barely plays any significant role. The mines ores and Spat in the Ore Mountains have their heyday behind. Many mines have long been exploited. But the sometimes low remaining reserves may again in the future play a greater role.
