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euronews reporter – Gold Rush In Romania
http://www.euronews.com/ This mountain contains Europe’s biggest gold deposits. With the economic crisis, the price of gold is rocketing and there are plans to open new gold mines in Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Greece, Northern Ireland and Romania.
The Rosia Montana – Red Mountain – project is among the most controversial, due to the sheer size of the proposed site, the impact on environment, and the archaeological artefacts from Ancient Rome which are found all over this 2000 year-old site.
Team-leader Calin Pal checks the preservation works being carried out in the protected section of the site, criss-crossed by galleries dug by the Romans. He says: “There are at least three generations of miners before me: My great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father. My hope is that the next ten generations will go on mining here too.”
Most locals feel the same way. They want the Canadian investors to start blasting as soon as possible. But opponents fear that the Roman galleries will be destroyed. To ease tensions, the “Gold Corporation” is investing millions of euros to transform at least part of the Roman galleries into an underground museum.
Robert Horvath, an Archaeologist on the site said: “The biggest information is the shape of the gallery: So, when it is geometrical, we know it is Roman. And we find ladders, ancient Roman type. And we find lamp niches and we know that medieval miners did not use the same shape.”
Calin’s men remove the backfill from centuries ago, so that the historic galleries can be mapped. Since 1998, mining in Romania has seen radical changes: 550 mines closed, 80,000 people laid off. The mines from Communist times did not conform with modern regulations, or with EU competition rules.
When the Canadian investors arrived, the miners here had high hopes, but opponents fear that few profits will stay in Romania.
But Catalin Hosu, Communications Manager for Rosia Montana Gold Corporation said: “We do have the biggest gold deposit in the European Union: over 300 tons of gold. We do have here a proposed investment of over two billion dollars. We are talking about benefits for Romania: over 4 billion dollars, that means over 50% of the total estimated revenues. And we are talking about creating thousands of jobs.”
To allay fears about pollution from the cyanide, the company has designed a dam. It will be strong enough to withstand an earthquake of 8 degrees on the Richter scale.
Sorin Jurca, Rosia Montana Cultural Foundation, said: “All this area will be destroyed: The Corna valley over there, where 40 families still live, with two churches and with graveyards. The company wants to build a big dam and a lake covering 600 hectares. If they’ll build the dam, all of this will disappear from the surface of this planet.”
Most of the inhabitants have already agreed to be resettled 70kms away, near Alba Iulia. On the outskirts of the town, the company has spent almost 30 million euros building 125 new houses and a church. Back in the mining region, ex-miners are hoping for new jobs, and a new economic future.
But the Roma families fear they are being sidelined when it comes to hiring – out of the 480 people taken on so far, only 30 are Roma.
Dorinel Pantir, a former Roma miner from Daroaia, said: “Gold Corporation should talk to us directly, not through the local mayor’s people. We should set up a committee to sign a protocol with Gold Corporation so that at least one member of each Roma family will be hired.”
The decline of mining here has led to unemployment rates of around 80% and young people are leaving. But life has always been hard here. In the 50s, during the Communist era gold prospectors had problems too.
Ioan Catalina, a gold prospector, explained: “The Secret Service police shouted: “To the wall, face the wall! And he started waving his pistol around, threatening us. “I could shoot you on the spot! But you have one last chance!” So my grandfather and his friend destroyed their gold milling equipment.”
The red water from the old galleries is so polluted nothing can survive in it. The Gold Corporation has built a water treatment station, a high-tech lab, using nano-filter technology. The says it will clean up not only its own waste water, but also the mess from past centuries.
Catalin Hosu, Communications Manager, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation said: “What you see here is historic pollution. Maybe for hundreds of years. It is very acidic water. But it can be cleaned up. We have a pilot station, proving this. And this is the result: clean and drinkable water.”
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@monicaanicai7589
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Roma people should find better jobs . Romanians shouldn't suffer for few people. Roma people think just about themselves as usual not about everything else around them. This is when they have just a little understanding about what is going on in there.
@louanarose
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Isn’t that enough how much Gold you guys took from Romania for thousands of years? Romanians don’t even have the chance to take some of their gold and use it anymore because of you guys…..
@alexandruolex8372
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
We took gold out of the mountain as dacians…romans took .then all ocupying countryes then russia….so leave it in the mountainq.better than a swiss bank…we made money with uranium and other rare metals trough comunism…shitloads of uranium
@SpiderF27
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Quite a few Romanian greedy traitors in this clip!!!
@AbdulRehman-lb4vh
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Good
@Eiclittlestar
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
and thats how they sell F. romania !!!! sell it all we are not poor enough , bastards
@444slowitdown
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
i dont feel sorry for people and countries that dont have much work and the country is in debt and young people get married and have 3 or 5 kids and cant feed them and then there kids do the same even after watching thmselves first hand how bad it is growing up in that country.. u need too be strong willed and not have children no matter what.. so dont feel bad for people who choose the wrong path and bring children into this world that have no future
@paraschivlaurentiu70
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Propaganda at it.s best.
@DCeNu
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
The Swissy have stolen most of the gold in the world…
@paulthomas975
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
My Grandfather Fredrick and Anna Tomas were from Romania which in 1907 immigrated to America. Does the gold in Romania come from the Ural mountains? Also do you know of any Tomas kindred that live in Romania? I am interested in family genealogy.
@thrace69
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Salvati Rosia Montana and F.O. RMGC !!!
@thrace69
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Please Canadian investors make holes in your country. Let Europe alone !
@pistabaciipistabacii9769
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
nu ne lasam luptam la sange ne aparam patria neamul nostru roman patria ieu pt patria mea omor la kg tot ce misca de afara moarte celor ce vrea raul patriei mele pamant sfant
@motorbebe
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Gold Corporation propaganda..
@Mr18121991
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Stop distrugeri Roșia Montană ma pis pe proiectele voastre statul va lua 2 % si canadieni 98 % marș ati prădat tara vreți sa luați si aurul ! Nimic leprelor distrugeți in alta parte
@theweb6140
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
I love Romania!!
@andid6137
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Crappy documentary!
@force8989
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
cata saracie ….
@htc2hd
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
It's funny how everyone is talking about a Canadian company when in fact it is Romanian's political class and rich ppl behind this Canadian company. Many of this powerful ppl have double citizenship Romanian and Canadian and to make it look less corrupted everyone talks about an Canadian company and outside investor.
@jaffyger
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
The Irish government has done the same hear sold all our gold and oil resources away its a disgrace.
@r3ddevill
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
24k best gold in the world, we have as country one of the most if not, the richest 24k gold deposits in in the world, the Romans dug over 500 tons of it, the Austro-Hungarian empire dug up even more, and past 1999 we declared that we have no more gold and we closed up all the mines, under the pressure of the Bank of England, since we were producing gold in excess. The government was OK with it, they made some good money out of it 1/1000 of the value if not less, we lost the right to mark our gold, since instead of 22 tones we were and we still produce around 100 grams (there is only one old local prospector that does that) and the the bare minimum is 11 tones or so.
The main reason for the closure was the profit and the rentability between digging and processing, so they tore down all the gold industry and factories for the junk iron which they said is more profitable then gold and processing.
A few years ago some geologists came here and made some studies, they found out 3 more gold vines worth over 400 billions (the whole capital of the Bank of England) so they made a contract with our government, and sold/rented it for the taxes and fees that might come out, they were Canadians.
Now as they said in this video indeed there are issues with Rosia Montana, like the poisoning with cyanide, but that is not the only mine we have. The other mines do not require cyanide, and are the so called ecological, – since it does not require any kind of chemicals to be prospected, and can be exploited in the old fashion the by washing the gold out of the sand and rocks. There are only a few that knows this facts, and they keep their mouth shut because the political interests it is way bigger then our country benefits.
I apologize for my bad english, I'm Romanian and I struggle sometimes to type correctly, but my point was if you understood it that we might have gold but its hidden by our government and even if we could access it basically it's already sold, and indeed we could do much but we are too used to live in poverty and complain without doing anything.
@cocolino2181
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
go in another country romania is not for sale we have the best gold in the worlds 24 k
@violetaneagoe
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
I am so disappointed by Euronews, it is outrageous to show on screens such a low quality documentary with no concrete data, only words like "thousands of jobs", "billions profit" – which does not exist in reality, and showing only one side of the project. Where are the arguments of those institutions and people who are opposing the project based on analyzes and concrete data like Romanian Academy, The Romanian Geological Institute, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies etc. Did you know that draft law Rosia Montana was qualified as breaking the Romanian Constitution by the Minister of Justice? So, what are we talking about? Is Euronews really respecting the european values, is Euronews really an upstanding media institution? It will be very nice to answer to our comments.
@mareanhabarnam5435
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Money can buy everything! Including euronews jurnalists
@WorldRoblox
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
it would not be passed in our parliament 😛
@wickedloonuh89
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Of course the people from Rosia Montana have no jobs and are incredibly poor: the area is stated to be MONOINDUSTRIAL .. people are not allowed to do anything except mining..there are no investments… If the government cares so much.. let them do agriculture, take care of animals etc. Using 53 TONS OF CYANIDE PER YEAR..FOR 16 YEARS is outrageous… and an ecological disaster !! Euronews should be more objective and present all the right facts!
@JonnyValentino1977
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Sure we have the richest gold deposit in the Europe, but also we have archeological history buried in those mountains which is sacred to us Romanians. Now if gold companies come and remove these riches, what are we to do? I say one thing. It will not cost them because they will profit from it and we will pay for it dearly. This process will kill us through the chemicals released in our water supply, and it will destroy the vegetation. What are you going to do with my gold, supply another WAR!!!!
@aspasiadiacenco9121
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
STAY AWAY FROM OUR MOUNTAIN! don't make business with the government. Ask the people if the 50% mentioned of 4 billions dollars/euro will get to us. I tell you NO. the minimum wadge is so low that we bearly have food. never mind the utillities. if canadians want to invest they should think about agriculture.
and I want to ask: the water you will produce is going to be sold by how much per cube meter? Do you have any idea of the bribe asked by the environment ministry for the authorization?
@MezeiEugen
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
3. Infrastructura. Aici intr-adevar s-ar putea investi. Banii dati pe promovarea proiectului de exploatare Au cu siguranta ar fi ajuns si pt reclama si pt. drumuri si alta infrastructura.
Pina la urma avem un caz absolut identic la Rimetea. Tot fost oras minier fara alte zone de activitate pt. populatie, la fel cu tentatia plecarii la oras. Statul la fel nu a investit acolo. Ma intreb daca pina la urma nu tot calitatea oamenilor face diferenta. Pina la urma cine nu vrea nu poti sa-l obligi.
@MezeiEugen
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Despre apiculutura nu stiu ce sa zic necunoscand vegetatia din zona. Tind sa cred ca problema e asemanatoare cu zootehnia. Sa nu ne amagim cu solutii fara baza de succes.
Turismul ar putea fi o solutie insa vad 3 obstacole: 1. Recalifcarea. Acolo traiesc mineri, nu hangii. Si meseria de gazda trebuie invatata. 2. Cu oameni care declara ca traiesc din cate un fier gasit pe ici-colo (adica furt). Schimbarea de mentalitate ar putea dura mai mult decat mineritul + rebiologizarea zonei. 3. Infrastru
@MezeiEugen
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Absolut de acord cu tine (si cu ceilalti) referitor la daunele (macinatul muntelui) si pericolul (bazinul de cianura) care sunt de asteptat. Singurul lucru cu care nu sunt de acord este enuntul referitor la agricultura. Pur si simplu zona nu este buna pt. agricultura nici macar pt. pomiculutura. Zootehnie poti face si se si face, insa zootehnia rentabila se face in zilele noastre intensiv. Zootehnia extensiva ar fi rentabila doar daca ar putea creea si o structura de distributie pt. produse eco.
@aleccch
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
repet,statul roman,a stopat orice investitie in zona,ca oameni de acolo sa ajunga la disparare si sa fie usor de manipulat.Stiu ca sunt extrem de amarti cei de acolo,dar ar trebuii ca noi sa-i ajutam si sa demascam ce se intampla de fapt.cauta pe youtube,ora de bussines cu tipul ala de la tvr despre Rosia Montana,ptr ca mult mai informat despre aceast caz.poti face si pe munte(livezi,apicultura,zootehnie,s.a).Tipul de minerit pe care ei il vor face,e foarte daunator,macina muntii,nu prin galerii
@aleccch
March 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm
prietene,zona aia a fost declarata de catre guvern,zona defavorizata…adica,niciun investitor,nu va fi interesat de vreo investie in zona,fortand astfel populatia locala sa ceara mineritul.Logic si bine planuit de catre, politicieni nostri si multinationala canadiana.Si cum sa fim de acord,cu astfel de proiect?5% din extractie ni se cuvin noua?dezastrul ecologic,distrugerea istoriei,a unei zone cu o natura extraordinara,sa trecem cu vederea peste osamintele oamenilor care au trait acolo?