Mining industry of Romania

Romania ranks tenth in the world in terms of the diversity of minerals produced in the country.

Other natural resources include: coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, uranium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestine (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur) and clay.

The 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government.

Lesser amounts of copper, lead, molybdenum, gold, silver, kaolin, and fluorite also were mined.

In 2004, according to Europaworld.com, the main mining industries in thousand metric tons were:[7] Romania is an oil producer, but the level of production is not enough to make the country self-sufficient.