Today, most copper comes from South America, China and Africa. Germany is 100 percent dependent on imports for primary materials. However, the crises of recent years have clearly shown that we in Europe need to become less dependent on raw material imports. The European Commission's Critical Raw Materials Act clearly shows that domestic raw material extraction should once again become more of a focus and be developed into an important pillar of the European raw material supply. We want to make an important contribution to this with the copper we extract in Lusatia.