Q: What is the method proposed for the gold extraction from Rosia Montana?
A: The method will be the Cyanide-leaching, a chemical procedure, highly toxic and with long-term effects. If operational, the gold mine will evacuate 500.000 tones of rock / week and will use between 13 and 15 millions of kilogrammes of cyanide / year. Up to date, 2/3 of the gold extracted at global level comes from open cast gold mines, some of them having gigantic dimensions which can be observed from out the space.
Q: How is the gold exactly being extracted?
A: The cyanide-leaching allows miners to coax microscopic gold flecks from low-grade ore and suppose the followings: 1) Exploitation in open cast mines of huge sizes destroy the ecosystem and leave behind sterile landscapes. 2) Crushing and piling the extracted ore into heaps that would cover many football fields and are several hundred feet high (heap-leaching); or placing the crushed ore in large vats (vat-leaching). Spraying a cyanide solution over the heaps (or into the vats) so that the cyanide trickles down through the ore, bonding with gold (97%), including particles of gold that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. 3) Approximately 2g of gold is can be extracted from one tone of ore.
Q: What can you do?
A: Research this website and form your opinion. Read the documents and the materials available and send them forward to as many friends as possible. You need to frequently visit the 'Alert' section so that you can take part to the activities carried through out the campaign. Subscribe to the campaign's newsletter so that you can be up-dated wit the latest news and nevertheless visit Rosia Montana to see the reality with your own eyes.
Q: What can you do today?
A: 1) Visit the Chamber of Deputies website and vote against the mining project proposed at Rosia Montana. Up to date, more than 8031 persons voted and 96% were against the project.
2) Visit the Cyanide Free Romania Coalition' s website, www.faracianura.ro and request to the Romanian Parliament a ban for the cyanide used in mining activities in Romania. Send a petition to the parliamentarians from your county and urge them to be present to the vote and to represent your will.
Q: What can you do this week?
A: 1) Organize for your friends a movie evening and present them one of the documentaries made about Rosia Montana. One of the most appreciated such documentaries is the New Eldorado made by the Hungarian director Tibor Kocsis.
2) Always inform yourself from more sources, tell your friends and family about the risks envisaged by the mining project from Rosia Montana and encourage them to take stance concerning this problem.
3) Download the t-shirt, sticker and the stencill Save Rosia Montana to promote the Campaign.
Q: What can you do this month?
A: 1) Visit Rosia Montana and discover the Golden Way , supporting this way the sustainable development and the agro-tourism in the region.
2) Support the Save Rosia Montana Campaign through a donation.
