Muncelu Mic mine

Muncelu Mic mine
Location
Location	Veţel
Commune	Hunedoara County
Country	Romania
Owner
None	State owned
Production
Products	Iron ore
Production	0 tonnes of iron ore
Financial year	2008
History
Opened	1951
Closed	1998

The Muncelu Mic mine was a large open pit mine in the western of Romania in Hunedoara County, 16 km southeast of Simeria and 387 km north-west of the capital, Bucharest. Muncelu Mic represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Romania having estimated reserves of 6,500,000 tonnes of ore.^[1] When it was operational it produced around 200,000 tonnes of iron ore/year.^[1] The mine also has a gold reserve of around 5.4 million tonnes grading 1g/tonne.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "BRESURSE MINERALE" (in Romanian). Primaria Veţel. 2007. http://www.primaria-vetel-hd.ro/afaceri.php. Retrieved 2010-08-24. ^{[dead link]}