Rosia Montana: Community Vs Corporation In Court

The environmental impact

• The open cast mine at Rosia Montana would be the largest scale exploitation of its kind in Europe;
• 13 times more sodium cyanide would be used than the entire quantity that is currently being used in Europe;
• Over the 17 years, 240.000 tons of cyanide would be used (the equivalent of 600.000.000.000 lethal doses for an adult);
• Four mountain tops would be blown away;
• The current village of Corna would be entirely covered by a tailings management pond, containing cyanide and heavy metals spread over 300 hectares;
• The stagnant cyanide would  spread in the air as cyanhydric acid (used in the Nazi concentration camps, albeit in higher doses), attaching itself to the dust particles and staying in the atmosphere for 1- 3 years;
• The rockfill dam (made of compacted rock materials) would be 185 meters high and over 1 km in length. It would be located only 2 km away from Abrud, a city with a population of over 6000.
• http://www.popularresistance.org/rosia-montana-community-vs-corporation-in-court/