Romania

The Canadian mining map was produced by the Halifax Initiative during the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries. The Roundtables, which took place between June and November of 2006, fulfilled one of the recommendations made in the groundbreaking report, Mining in Developing Countries and Corporate Social Responsibility, tabled by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) in June 2005.

Alburnus Maior
Str. Berk 361 517 615 Rosia Montana
Alba County Romania .
Tel/ Fax: +40 (0) 258 859 328 Mobile: +40 (0) 740 342 104
Email: alburnusmaior@ngo.ro
www.rosiamontana.org

Rosia Montana/Romania, 20 November 2004 – According to a media release issued by Budapest-based Radio Kossuth, Ms. Speranta Ianculescu, Romania’s Minister for the Environment and Water Management (MMGA) confirmed yesterday, during a meeting with her Hungarian counterpart Miklós Persányi that the Romanian Government does not support the realization of the mining exploitation at Rosia Montana.

MiningWatch Canada, Alburnus Maior and the Working Group on Export Development Canada held a press conference November 10 in support of demonstrations in cities all over Europe against Gabriel Resources' proposed Rosia Montana gold mine.