Ghelari mine

Ghelari mine
Location
Location Ghelari
Commune Hunedoara County
Country Romania
Owner
None State owned
Production
Products Iron ore, sometimes Magnetite, Siderite, Limonite, in pockets: Hematite.
Production 200,000 tonnes of iron ore
Financial year 2008
History
Opened 1900
Closed September 2005

The Ghelari mine was a large open pit, also an underground mine in the western of Romania in Hunedoara County, 20 km west of Hunedoara and 411 km north-west of the capital, Bucharest. Ghelari represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Romania having estimated reserves of 14,000,000 tonnes of ore.[1] The mine produces around 200,000 tonnes of iron ore/year.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Zăcămitele de minereu de fier" (in Romanian). Consiliul judetean Hunedoara. 2010. http://cshd.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/a-doua-epistola-catre-hunedoreni1.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-24.