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Dec 12, 2014· Geamana is an abandoned village in Romania. It was a very nice and happy village up until 1978, when the Communist regime forced residents to leave their homes and make way for .

The 1971 Certej dam failure was a flood due to the failure of a tailings dam at the Certej Mine which led to the death of 89 people. It occurred on 30 October 1971 in Certeju de Sus Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania.

The 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government.. The polluted waters eventually reached the Tisza and then the Danube, killing large numbers of fish in Hungary, Serbia and Romania.

Sep 01, 2013· Earlier this week Romania's ruling party approved draft legislation on Europe's would-be largest open-cast gold mine. On Sunday night, thousands of Romanians hit the streets to protest the ...

Jul 14, 2017· Romania hits Canadian firm with $9m 'retaliatory' tax bill over gold mine ... a founding member of Mining Watch Romania. "The sheer size of the .

Jul 14, 2015· Romania is home to the largest gold deposit in continental Europe. In fact, it is not just gold that attracts miners to this country. Romania is one of the poorer countries in Europe, but from a view of the resources available for mining it is actually one of the richest. There are a large variety [.]

Canadian mining company Euro Sun Mining (formerly Carpathian Gold), the owner of the Rovina gold project in Romania, has renounced its planned private placement of shares under which it hoped to ...

Roşia Montană voices to be heard in illegal Romanian gold mine litigation November 5, 2018 On Friday, November 2, 2018, public interest law organizations filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Roşia Montană community affected by an illegal gold mine project in Romania to include their perspectives in arbitration proceedings at the International .

Apr 12, 2000· On January 30th 2000, the dam containing toxic waste material from the Baia Mare Aurul gold mine in North Western Romania burst and released 100,000 cubic .

Romania split over Europe's biggest gold mine. Critics claim project will shaft the town of Rosia Montana, but defenders say it's a golden opportunity.

SZENTENDRE, Hungary, July 28, 2000 (ENS) - An independent body set up by the European Union has made public its environmental concerns over the reopening of the Aurul gold mine tailings recovery ...

Protests erupt in Romania over gold mine. ... Hungary emerged as a principal victim of that disaster. There, nearly all life was extinguished within several hundred kilometers of the Tisza.

Moreover, processing mined gold ore requires the use of cyanide, a highly toxic substance that can harm ecosystems. Disasters related to gold mining are not isolated cases. Since the 1970s, at least 11 gold mines have caused irreparable environmental damages around the world. Romania has already twice suffered such impacts.

Romania seeks to withdraw Rosia Montana gold mine from Un list 1st September 2017 By: Mariaan Webb Creamer Media Senior Researcher and Deputy Editor Online SAVE THIS ARTICLE EMAIL THIS ARTICLE

Cyanide spill reveals the cost of gold By Jim Green The environmental and political fallout from a major cyanide spill at a Romanian gold and silver mine on January 30 continues to spread. Aurul Gold, the Baia Mare mine operator, is half-owned by

Cyanide spill "a catastrophe of European dimensions" By Julie Hyland 15 February 2000 A poisonous chemical spill has destroyed wildlife and fish stocks and threatened the .

Jul 12, 2018· The bitter fight concerns a foreign company's proposal to build Europe's largest open-pit gold mine at a historic site called Roșia Montană. ... disaster in Europe since the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Massive protests are gripping Romania against the government's controversial decision to pave the way for a Canadian firm to build Europe's largest opencast gold mine – which many fear may lead to an environmental disaster.

Mar 19, 2015· At the moment, Romania is still considering a Canadian mining project for Rosia Montana gold mine. The project would use 40 tons of cyanide a day to extract over 300 tons of gold.

The Romanian government has announced that it will approach the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Un) to withdraw a request to declare the Roşia Montană gold ...

12 rows· This is a list of gold mining disasters resulting from dam failure, cyanide leaking into the .

This is a list of gold mining disasters resulting from dam failure, cyanide leaking into the environment and inappropriate toxic waste discharge related to gold mining using the gold cyanidation technique.

Sep 05, 2017· Geamana is one of Romania's greatest ecological disasters, surpassed only in 2000 when a gold mine in Baia Mare in the north of the country spilled an estimated 100 tonnes of cyanide into a river.

Nov 05, 2018· Memories in Romania are still fresh from the Baia Mare disaster in 2000, when a dam at another mining project overflowed, leading to cyanide-contaminated water flooding into the Danube and other nearby rivers. In 2013, hundreds of thousands of Romanians took the streets to demand their government apply the law and stop the Roşia Montană mine.
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