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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...
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.
(26 Feb 2000) English/NatTwo dozen U.N. inspectors arrived on Saturday in the northwestern Romanian city of Baia Mare, near where a poisonous cyanide spill o...
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...
A toxic spill occurred 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 contaminated with cyanide, into the Lapus and Somes tributaries of the river Tisza, one of the biggest in Hungary.
Witness the chilling aftermath of the Baia Mare cyanide spill, Romania's environmental catastrophe of 2000. Discover the harrowing chain of events that follo...
6 mar 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.