2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill

When

30 Jan 2000

Kind

Mining accident

Coordinates

47.65° N, 23.64° E

Description

pollution

Leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș River

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.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill: On the night of the 30th to the 31st of January, a dam of the Romanian-Australian "Aurul" venture is cracked on a portion of 25…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Dammbruch einer Absetzanlage in Baia Mare (Rumänien), der eine schwere Umweltkatastrophe zur Folge hat”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Выброс в Дунай более 100 тыс. кубометров тяжёлых металлов на заводе румыно-австралийской компании «Аурул»”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page