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Rosia Montana gold district

Rosia Montana gold district, Romania, mining gold, silver.

Why Rosia Montana gold district is famous

Transylvanian gold district. The Roman, modern and protest history is not verified from an opened page (BBC and other news pages were blocked); see NOTES.md.1

Timeline

  1. 30 January 2000Baia Mare cyanide spill2

What kind of deposit

Epithermal vein (Creede type)

Rosia Montana gold district today

Where gold is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Romania

Where next

Events

ExamplesBaia Mare cyanide spillA tailings dam breach in 2000 released 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-laden water in Romania.2

Places

Located inRosia Montana Mining LandscapeRosia Montana gold district sits at Rosia Montana Mining Landscape.1

Deposit types

An example ofEpithermal vein (Creede type)Rosia Montana gold district belongs to the epithermal vein family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q857008 (Rosia Montana) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Cyanide Spill at Baia Mare, Romania: UNEP/OCHA Assessment Mission report UNEP / UN OCHA via ReliefWeb
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0); South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).