Baia Mare Gold Mine
Sep 13, 2008nbsp018332M ore than 100,000 cubic meters of heavily poisoned water, rich in cyanide and other toxic heavy metals, such as copper and zinc, spilled through a tailings dam breach Jan. 31, 2000, in Baia Mare, capital of Maramures County, Romania. The contaminants thus began their journey through the Carpathian Mountains en route to the Tisza River Basin. In a four-week period, the toxic plume,