Rosia Montana, located in western Romania, is home to Europe's largest gold deposits. Gabriel Resources, a Canadian mining company that gained concession rights in 1999, planned to extract the ...

Rosia Montana WHS is about the Roman mine, but if you want to see another good, old Roman stone ruin, the place to go is a village near Rosia Montana called Corna, which is within the core zone of this WHS. The ruin, called Hop Gauri, is located near Gauri Turn/Lake, which is less than 500 m away from Corna but is higher up, and is supposed …

Abstract. Rosia Montana, or Alburnus Maior as was called by the Romans, is a famous ancient gold mining area located in the Apuseni Mts, at the western boundary of Transylvania, Romania. Its richness in gold was known and valued by ancient exploitations of river sediments or shallow veins long before the Roman conquest of Dacia (Motiu, 2004).

Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), formed by the two shareholders: the mining company of the Romanian state, Minvest Rosia Montana S.A with 19.31 % of the shares, and Gabriel Resources with 80.69 % (Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, 2015). The terms under which the project was accepted were classified as secret information (Gotiu, 2013).

NYE, Mont. (AP) — A contract worker has died in a machinery accident at an underground precious metals mine in south-central Montana and work has temporarily …

Rosia Montana town, made up of 16 villages that dot the slopes along the river Rosia, has hundred-year-old churches and houses, cemeteries and ancient Roman mine galleries. Picture taken October 4 ...

Gabriel Resources is a gold mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of more than $600 million — down from over $1 billion at its peak. Its sole reason for...

Rosia Montana is a historic mountain village sitting on 2,000-year-old Roman mine galleries – and on Europe's largest known gold deposit. Since 1997, Gabriel Resources has had plans to build Europe's biggest open-pit goldmine using cyanide extraction – a project that would blast away four mountain peaks, the ancient mine …

In 2016, Minister of Culture Vlad Alexandrescu vowed to put an end to cyanide gold mining once and for all. He declared Rosia Montana to be a historic site of national interest and put it on the ...

In this section you can download presentation documents and key information about the mining industry and the mining project we propose at Rosia Montana. Company …

3 Min Read. TORONTO, June 29 (Reuters) - Gabriel Resources Ltd will seek $4.4 billion in damages from Romania for losses related to its long-stalled Rosia Montana gold mine project in a claim that ...

Rosia Montana (situated in the Apuseni mountains in the west of Romania) has been a site for gold and silver mining for over 2000 years. A new open cast mining project is under way. The General Rapporteur's attention has been drawn to the threat this poses to a site of cultural and environmental importance.

La mina romana de Rosia Montana es ya Patrimonio de la Humanidad. La decisión de la Un ha alegrado a muchos ecologistas y vecinos, muy preocupados por la degradación de la zona a causa de la explotación salvaje de toneladas de minerales preciosos. Aspecto del exterior de las minas. La inclusión de la mina romana de Rosia …

First, Rosia Montana was always a mining town. Gold has mined from the surrounding hills since before Roman times right up until two years ago. Open pit mining was introduced in the 1970s. It ...

Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) is the company behind the project, which was first mooted back in the mid-1990s. It says the new mine could benefit the Romanian economy to the tune of $19bn ...

In the present study, the biosorptive potential of Cyprinus carpio scales for the removal of Fe, Mn, and Zn ions from real acidic mine drainage (AMD) generated at the Rosia Montana gold mine ...

Rosia Montana Project could bring 5,3 billion USD into the Romanian economy. Environment. Modern mining project, which will stop existing pollution and protect the environment. Patrimony. RMGC invested over 30 million USD to bring the history to light. Community. The people in Rosia need jobs, in a safe and modern mine.

Rosia Montana is a proper gold mine – it's one of the biggest gold reserves in Europe which back in ancient times convinced the Romans to settle here in large numbers. In spite of the political support, the next 18 years pass without the company to actually get to begin mining. And this is due to a local opposition group - an NGO called ...

31 August 2017 Romania Mining Democracy Activism Demonstrations blocked a gold mining project in Rosia Montana, Romania – now the company is suing the country for billions, writes Alessio Perrone. The …

Rosia Montana town and valley. Photo: Alburnus Maior. Local opposition to the mine is based in part on the disastrous experience at the Baia Mare gold mine in Romania, where a cyanide spill in 2000 polluted the Tisza and Danube Rivers, contaminating the drinking water supplies of 2.5 million people and killing 1200 tons of …

Sitting atop one of Europe's largest gold deposits, Rosia Montana has for 15 years been at the center of a battle between villagers and Canada-listed mining company Gabriel Resources.

Gold Corporation plans to build Europe's largest gold mine at Rosia Montana to extract 300 tonnes of gold and 1,600 tonnes of silver over 17 years. The operation would involve the destruction of ...

24 Apr 2019. Transylvania, Romania – In 2013, Rosia Montana was almost destroyed to make way for a gold mine – plans that continue to haunt the village which sits in the Apuseni Mountains of ...

Existing open pit at Rosia Montana mined by Romanian state-owned company during Soviet times. Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), a Romanian mining company majority owned by Canada's Gabriel ...

Rosia Montana Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Reporting Notes: Disclosure of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves for the Project is extracted or derived from the Company's "Technical Report on the Rosia Montana Gold and Silver Project Transylvania, Romania" with an effective date of October 1, 2012 ("Technical Report"), which is filed …

Jan. 3, 2007. ROSIA MONTANA, Romania — Eugen David, a small-time farmer with a chipped tooth and muddy boots in this obscure wrinkle of Transylvania, is an unlikely man to attract the attention ...

Most of the 2,800 residents of Rosia Montana hope the project will bring jobs and money to their impoverished town, which took a hit when a state-owned gold mine closed in 2006.

Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. Located in the Metalliferous range of the Apuseni Mountains in the west of Romania, Roșia Montană features the most significant, …

The exploitation project, known as the Roșia Montană Mining Project and operated by the Romanian-Canadian enterprise RMGC, aimed to transform the region …

Save Rosia Montana created an extensive list of demands that insisted the government reject any mining plans, ban the use of cyanide as a mining technique, and treat Rosia Montana as a historically and culturally significant site. Alburnus Maior remained active on a local level, but Save Rosia Montana planned many of the larger actions.

Last week's decision by the Romanian government to seek UN World Heritage status for Rosia Montana, a historic Carpathian mountain village under threat of gold mining, is a massive victory for campaigners after a hard 15-year struggle, writes Alexandru Predoiu - one that has united farmers, city-dwellers and new-age protestors …

Rosia Montana is a community of sixteen villages located in a district known as the Golden Quadrilateral, in the South Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania, Romania. The Golden Quadrilateral has been one of Europe's most prolific mining districts for over 2000 years. The Rosia Montana concession area, which affects just four of these villages, was ...

27 July 2021. Iulian Ernst. Reddit. Several days before the UN decision on Romania's request for putting under protection the historic site at Rosia Montana - a gold mining …

Opposition to proposals for a gold mine around Rosia Montana is at the heart of pro-democracy protests. Thu 5 Sep 2013 10.08 EDT. Fifteen years ago, Canadian company Gabriel Resources came to ...

Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources has for two decades tried unsuccessfully to build Europe's largest gold mine. Recognising the value of the site, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, a UN expert advisory body, recommended in 2018 that Rosia Montana be included on the UN cultural agency's list …