In 1999, Gabriel Resources, the Canadian mining company, was granted the right to mine gold in the Rosia Montana area in Romania. Rosia Montana was to become Europe's largest open-cast gold mining project. As Gabriel, the Barbados-registered company with no mining experience whatsoever, is seeking to keep its costs low, they plan to use the controversial cyanide
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Providing the planning, permitting, and infrastructure engineering for a gold mine in northwest Romania. In 2006, the northwest Romanian community of Rosia Montana was at risk due to poor housing conditions, contaminated drinking water, inadequate medical services, and a lack of employment opportunities. So when Gabriel Resources approached us ...
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Roșia Montană Mining Landscape contains the most significant, extensive and technically diverse underground Roman gold mining complex currently known in the world, dating from the Roman occupation of Dacia (106-271 CE). Roșia Montană is situated in a natural amphitheatre of massifs and radiating valleys in the Metalliferous range of the ...
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2009-6-1 Memories in the region are still fresh of an accident at another gold mine 80 miles north of Rosia Montana in which a dam holding back a cyanide-laced lake burst in 2000, contaminating water for ...
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2018-12-12 September 10, 2012. In February of 2012, a team of geologists did some diggings at Roşia Montană Gold Mines, in one of the galleries discovered by the Agatyrsi 5500 years ago. Here they found a huge stone made up of 15% granite dust, 30% wolfram and 55% gold dust. *The Agatyrsi were the Dacians’ ancestors and lived on the territory occupied ...
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Rosia Montana has always been rich in mineral resources, especially in gold. Unfortunately the accident at Baia Mare in 2000 brought home to Romanians the dangers of cyanide leaching due to the use of this chemical for gold mining. As a consequence waste material derived from mining operations had to be capped to avoid water to move easily through this material.
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2004-8-31 Rosia Montana gold project gets cash inflow. With Newmont Mining's purchase of 10% of Gabriel Resources (owners of Rosia Montana Gold Project), for a reported $19,000,000 USD, Gabriel can breathe some new life into their stalled Rosia Montana gold project, which could become the largest gold mine in Europe, providing good paying jobs for ...
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2015-7-22 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.
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2021-7-27 The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded Romania’s Rosia Montana gold mine world heritage status. However, the move may complicate an ongoing lawsuit with a Canadian company. During the latest session of the UN body’s World Heritage Committee, the Rosia Montana mine was awarded the special ...
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2017-9-29 300 Tonnen Gold! In der alten Bergbaustadt Rosia Montana sollen die größten Goldvorkommen Europas lagern. Graben oder nicht? Darüber streitet Rumänien seit Jahren. Nun vollzieht die Regierung ...
MoreProviding the planning, permitting, and infrastructure engineering for a gold mine in northwest Romania. In 2006, the northwest Romanian community of Rosia Montana was at risk due to poor housing conditions, contaminated drinking water, inadequate medical services, and a lack of employment opportunities. So when Gabriel Resources approached us ...
More2018-12-12 September 10, 2012. In February of 2012, a team of geologists did some diggings at Roşia Montană Gold Mines, in one of the galleries discovered by the Agatyrsi 5500 years ago. Here they found a huge stone made up of 15% granite dust, 30% wolfram and 55% gold dust. *The Agatyrsi were the Dacians’ ancestors and lived on the territory occupied ...
MoreRosia Montana has always been rich in mineral resources, especially in gold. Unfortunately the accident at Baia Mare in 2000 brought home to Romanians the dangers of cyanide leaching due to the use of this chemical for gold mining. As a consequence waste material derived from mining operations had to be capped to avoid water to move easily through this material.
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2021-7-27 At that time, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) - a foreign company that received in 1997, in association with a local state-owned company, a 20-year concession contract for a gold mining ...
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2019-8-2 Siteul oficial al Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, compania ce urmeaza sa dezvolte la Rosia Montana cea mai moderna mina din Romania. Exploatare Reabilitare Continuă lucrările în carierele Cârnic şi Orlea şi se redeschide cariera Cetate. De asemenea, se ...
More2021-7-27 A Roman-era gold mine in Rosia Montana in central Romania has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, making it more difficult for companies to resume mining operations in the precious metal ...
More2021-7-27 The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded Romania’s Rosia Montana gold mine world heritage status. However, the move may complicate an ongoing lawsuit with a Canadian company. During the latest session of the UN body’s World Heritage Committee, the Rosia Montana mine was awarded the special ...
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Rosia Montana, the largest European gold mine, could be re-opened. Environmental problems led to severe pollution of the Rosia and Abrud Rivers. The two main potentially toxic element (PTE ...
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2021-8-26 Institutional Affiliation. Romania Case Study: The Rosia Montana Project. The Rosia Montana Project defines the plans of processing and exploiting silver and gold minerals. Furthermore, the project is located in west-central Romania and is owned by Rosia Montana Gold Corporation S.A. (RMGC) (Pascaru, 2013). Gabriel Resources Company and CNCAF ...
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2013-10-22 Gabriel Resources, the parent company of Rosia Montana Gold Corp. in a partnership with the Romanian government, owns an 81% share in the proposed open-pit mining project, while state-run CNCAF ...
MoreRosia Montana has always been rich in mineral resources, especially in gold. Unfortunately the accident at Baia Mare in 2000 brought home to Romanians the dangers of cyanide leaching due to the use of this chemical for gold mining. As a consequence waste material derived from mining operations had to be capped to avoid water to move easily through this material.
More2021-7-27 At that time, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) - a foreign company that received in 1997, in association with a local state-owned company, a 20-year concession contract for a gold mining ...
More2019-8-2 Siteul oficial al Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, compania ce urmeaza sa dezvolte la Rosia Montana cea mai moderna mina din Romania. Exploatare Reabilitare Continuă lucrările în carierele Cârnic şi Orlea şi se redeschide cariera Cetate. De asemenea, se ...
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2021-7-27 Rosia Montana gold mining project in the spotlight before UNESCO decision (Photo: Radu Salcudean/ courtesy of Institutul Național al
More2013-10-22 Gabriel Resources, the parent company of Rosia Montana Gold Corp. in a partnership with the Romanian government, owns an 81% share in the proposed open-pit mining project, while state-run CNCAF ...
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2013-12-12 Romania's parliament has voted down changes to mining laws that would have allowed Europe's biggest open cast pit gold mine to go ahead at Rosia Montana in the Carpathian mountains. The mine would emply highly toxic cyanide to mine about 300 tonnes of gold and 1,500 tonnes of silver a year. The lower house of Romania's parliament has rejected ...
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2021-7-23 Its subsidiary, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), in which the Romanian state holds 20 percent, received a mining concession in 1999. But the project — including plans to use 12,000 tonnes of cyanide per year to separate gold from crushed rock — drew the ire of environmentalists and others.
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2021-7-28 Mine carts once used to transport ore containing gold on show in the village of Rosia Montana, western Romania, on July 12. Photo: AFP. Volunteers work on
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2022-5-26 The Rosia Montana Project, one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in Europe, is situated in the South Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania, Romania, an historic and prolific mining district that since pre-Roman times has been mined intermittently for over 2,000 years.
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Fresh setback for Gabriel Resources in Romania, Rosia Montana named historic site. Cecilia Jamasmie. Mining. 14 January 2016. After spending 15 years trying to build a $2bn gold mine in Romania, Canada-listed Gabriel Resources may have to re-evaluate its plans as the village where it was planning to set up shop has been declared a site of historical interest.
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