In building a best practice modern mine and implementing the highest environmental standards, the Project creates an opportunity to remediate past damage, leaving the region's rivers cleaner than before.
The Company has established four main areas of environmental objectives: forestry and landscaping, water, tailings dam safety and noise and vibrations. Click here to find out more.
The region of Rosia Montana has been subject to 2,000 years of mining. More recently, the ore deposit at the Project has been subject to over 40 years of state-run underground and open-pit mining until its closure in 2006 by the Romanian Government. At that time it was designated an environmental "hot spot" by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River. These historical activities, conducted with few environmental controls, have created a site of 100 hectares affected by 18 waste stockpiles and two pits with a network of more than 140 kilometres of underground workings, generating an extensive amount of acidic water into local rivers.
The Future
Gabriel is committed to building a new state-of-the-art mining facility that will reinvigorate the local economy and honour cultural heritage, while setting world-class standards for environmental and social responsibility.
The Project is designed to the highest standards and complies with all Romanian and EU stringent environmental laws creating a model mining project not only for Romania and the EU but for future mining projects worldwide.
As a result, the Project will have the direct benefit of improving and mitigating much of the significant amount of environmental damage that has been caused in the Project area by previous mining techniques. Without such remediation, these areas of the environment would continue to sustain unattended damage.