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The 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government.
On January 30th 2000, the dam containing toxic waste material from the Baia Mare Aurul gold mine in North Western Romania burst and released 100,000 cubic meters of waste water, heavily ...
On January 30 at 22:00, a dam was breached ("broken") at the operations of the Aurul SA Company in Baia Mare, northwest Romania. The result was a spill of about 100,000 cubic meters of liquid and suspended waste containing about 50 to 100 tonnes of cyanide, as well as heavy metals including copper.
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Mar 6, 2000 · On 30 January 2000, following a breach in the tailing dam of the Aurul SA Baia Mare Company, a major spill of cyanide-rich tailings waste was released into the river system near Baia Mare in north west Romania.
Jan 31, 2005 · The first accident was a major cyanide and heavy metals spill which occurred following a dam burst of a tailing pond at a Romanian-Australian joint venture, Aurul Baia Mare. The second was a spill which occurred at a pond owned by the state regie Remin at Baia Borsa, close to Baia Mare.
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O n January 30, 2000, a massive spill of water with a high cyanide content occurred at the Aurul gold mine, Baia Mare, in northwest Romania.
May 2, 2022 · The Baia Mare spill is considered the second Cernobyl - The Baia Mare accident in 2000 occurred on the territory of this town, in Bozânta Mare, when the tailings dam broke and cyanide mining waste spilled in Tisa river and further on in the Danube.
