Baia Mare

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Baia Mare

Industrial town and capital of Maramureş county, northern Romania, 100 km/63 mi north of Cluj Napoca; population (2002) 137,900. Chemicals, metals, machinery, food, and fertilizers are produced. The nearby area is rich in ores containing gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium.

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On January 30, an estimated 100,000 cubic meters of polluted mud and wastewater escaped from a break in the dam of the Baia Mare gold mine in Northwest Romania, and spilled into the adjacent Lapus River.

CRYING RIVERS by Bogo, Jennifer / E

The tailings dam at Baia Mare ruptured, releasing an estimated 100,000 cubic meters of cyanide-tainted liquid into the watershed that feeds the Danube River.

Tarnishing the earth: gold mining's dirty secret. (Focus) by Fields, Scott / Environmental Health Perspectives

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