Location | |
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Location | Vețel |
Commune | Hunedoara County |
Country | Romania |
Production | |
Products | Iron ore, Gold, Iron |
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 6.5 million 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 and silver reserves of around 5.4 million tonnes grading 1g/t gold and 8g/t silver resulting 173,000 oz of gold and 1.38 million oz of silver.[1]