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Băița mine

Field	Value
name	Băița mine
pushpin_map	Romania
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Romania
coordinates
place	Nucet
subdivision_type	County
state/province	Bihor County
country	Romania
owner	CNU
products	Uranium
financial year	2008
amount	0.1 tonnes of uranium
opening year	1955

| state/province = Bihor County The Băița mine is a large open pit mine in the northwest of Romania in Bihor County, close to Ștei, 123 km southeast of Oradea and 737 km northwest of the capital, Bucharest. Băița represents the largest uranium reserve in Romania having estimated reserves of 90 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% uranium metal.

The Băița mine uranium reserve represents the largest surface uranium deposit in the world.

History

Sovromcuarț was a SovRom (a Soviet-Romanian joint venture established on Romanian territory during the Soviet occupation of Romania) which started its operations in 1950 at the Băița mine, under a name that was meant to conceal the true object of its activity. Its initial workforce consisted of 15,000 political prisoners; after most of them died of radiation poisoning, they were replaced by local villagers, who were completely unaware of the fact that they were working with radioactive material. Almost two thousand miners were working day and night, in four shifts; there was no concern for labor safety or environmental protection.

References

Gavrilă, Mariana. (2009-05-30). "Minereul radioactiv din Apuseni a contribuit la bomba atomică sovietică".
Cioroianu, Adrian. (2005). "Pe umerii lui Marx. O introducere în istoria comunismului românesc". [[Editura Curtea Veche]].
(2004). "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". [[Pennsylvania State University]].
"Children of Uranium". [[International Uranium Film Festival]].

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