Cuprom

It is recognised as a unique producer in Romania of electrolytically refined copper (99.99% Cu), having a production capacity of 40,000 tones/year and of fine gold and silver respectively (min.

In Romania, Cuprom Zalău is the sole producer of continuous cast copper wire with an annual nominal production of 73,000 tones/year.

They formed Cuprom (Romanian copper) and with this company they bought Phoenix Baia Mare and Elcond Zalău for a meager US$3.6 million .

In 2013, Daniel Boldor began selling thousands of tons of mining sludge from the then-defunct Cuprom facility in Baia Mare to international metal traders, claiming it was "gold [or copper] concentrate.

"[1][2] After several clients claimed their shipments were worthless and that laboratory certificates had been forged, the public prosecutor's office in Constanța filed an indictment against Boldor in June 2018 on charges of money laundering, customs fraud, document forgery, improper collection and transport of hazardous waste, and tax evasion.