Rosia Montana is situated near a picturesque village in Transylvania.
Gabriel Resources, a Canadian gold mining company, plan to hugely expand
an old mine there, and hope to extract 300 tonnes of gold over 16
years. The plan will destroy the tops of four mountains. More crucially,
it will use huge amounts of poisonous cyanide as part of the mining
process. Protesters are highly concerned about the environmental impact
of the plan. Hungary has expressed concerns about the effect of the
cyanide on rivers that flow into Hungary. In 2000, cyanide poisoning in
the Tisza river from a Romanian mine caused huge environmental damage,
killing off most life in the Hungarian part of the river.
http://europeangreens.eu/news/greens-protest-rosia-montata-gold-mining-project
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