Gabriel is fully committed to restoring, preserving and honouring Rosia Montana's valuable cultural heritage.

In recent years, more than US$15m has been invested (in accordance with legal requirements) in exploration and recovery of Rosia Montana's cultural heritage, one of the largest privately financed programmes in Europe.

In aggragate, approximatley US$140million has been pledged by Gabriel to preserve patrimony, locally in Rosia Montana and across the whole of Romania, over the life of the Project.

Gabriel has funded an independent and specialist rescue archaeology team who are using state-of the-art research methods and techniques. All archaeological efforts are being undertaken in compliance with the Romanian legal framework and EU archaeological guidelines. The cultural heritage plan includes several protected zones containing the village's historic structures as well as the future museum (including indoor and outdoor exhibitions, a roman and medieval gallery and a funerary monument and dwellings area, reserved and restored in situ), which will allow scholars, students and experts to study the region's cultural heritage.

It is Gabriel's enduring commitment to construct a new mining facility at Rosia Montana that will also preserve the cultural heritage of over 2000 years of mining and save important archaeological finds which would otherwise continue to decay and be lost.

Gabriel's cultural heritage efforts will continue to focus on maintenance, conservation and restoration of the historic centre as well as the provision of scientific and public research for the cultural heritage programme for Rosia Montana. All of these activities will be closely related to the development of the Project permitting process. If all proceeds according to plan, the region will benefit from a new village, a restored historic village centre for Rosia Montana with museums, hotels, restaurants and modern infrastructure, mine galleries and potential for a sustainable tourism industry for the future.

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Above: The Mining Museum before and after restoration

96 people

Resources and skills were utilised from 6 architects, 2 buildings experts, 4 building engineers, 2 worksite managers and 82 local workers.

€150,000

Total costs of approximately €150,000 for restoration, reopening and setting-up of the "Aurul Apusenilor" exhibition.

10,000 visitors

Building No.325 hosted over 10,000 visitors in the first year helping to bring renewed support and momentum for RMGC its efforts to restore and revalue the historical centre - the protected area of Rosia Montana.