Save Rosia Montana

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Gold has been mined at Rosia Montana, in the Apuseni mountains of West-Central Romania, since pre-historic times. The area’s riches attracted several foreign powers including the Romans. These powers carried off the precious metals to Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin but left behind what has become an historical and archaeological treasure of world class.
The seams of precious metals have long been worked out but gold and silver are still dispersed in microscopic quantities throughout the geology of the area.
The project proposal is that by blasting and pulverising the landscape, the invisible gold and silver could be exposed to hazardous cyanide compounds that would separate them from the rock.
The scenery would be devastated, hills transformed into massive craters in a toxic, sterile desert.
This is a populated area. The illegal process of forced resettlement has already begun.Will these unique historical and archaeological remains be obliterated and people forced to leave their homes?

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