04.06.2012

Gabriel Resources, owner of Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, the company developing a mining project in Romania, considers that the ruling of the Alba Iulia Court of Appeals issued Thursday does not more

01.31.2012

Around 20 Greenpeace activists entered the headquarters of Romania's Environment Ministry on Tuesday, having eluded gate security, demanding to speak to minister Laszlo Borbely about the Rosia Montana more

12.29.2011

Canada-based Gabriel Resources is waiting for Romania’s Government to explain if its decision to increase royalties on precious metal extraction from 4% to 8% will also target the Rosia Montana gold more

12.13.2011

The Romanian committee that carries out technical examinations into the Rosia Montana gold mining project needs one or two more meetings before making a decision on issuing an environmental permit for more

10.31.2011

The Romanian Government is in negotiations with Canadian company Gabriel Resources to increase its stake in Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) from 19.3% to 22.5%. more

10.05.2011

Romania's Government is in negotiations to increase the state's participation in the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation as well as raise royalties for gold mining, said Alexandru Patruti, head of the more

09.08.2011

Romania’s Economy Ministry supports the exploitation of gold deposits in Rosia Montana, but the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), the company which wants to develop the mining project, must more

09.06.2011

Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) may sell the mined gold and silver in advance, in order to finance its operations, and the Romanian state will not earn any dividends until minority shareholder more

09.04.2011

Romania’s Economy Ministry will reanalyze the country’s contract with Canada’s Gabriel Resources on the gold mining project in the western Rosia Montana, minister Ion Ariton told a news more

09.01.2011

Romanian presidential adviser Peter Eckstein Kovacs resigned Thursday over the president’s support for a gold mining project in Rosia Montana, western Romania, Kovacs told MEDIAFAX. more

08.29.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday will visit Rosia Montana, in the western Apuseni Mountains, and will hold talks with local authorities on the gold mining project to be developed in the more

08.18.2011

President Traian Basescu said Thursday that the Rosia Montana gold mining project "must be carried out," because Romania needs it, "but only after a renegotiation of the sharing of benefits." more

08.12.2011

Over 400 locals and miners in Rosia Montana, western Romania, assembled Friday in the center of the commune calling for the development of the gold mining project planned for the area and protesting more

08.09.2011

Hungary "has rejected the Rosia Montana [gold mining] project in its entirety," said Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely, adding that, in accordance with the Espoo Convention, this more

08.02.2011

Romania’s Government is waiting for expert opinions concerning the impact of the Rosia Montana gold mining project on the environment before making a decision regarding the investment, Prime more

07.28.2011

Romania can halt the gold mining project at Rosia Montana anytime unless the joint venture developing it, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, invests $70 million in preservation works in the area, Culture more

07.19.2011

A few dozen people protested Tuesday outside Romania's Culture Ministry in Bucharest against its approval of the archaeological discharge certificate for the Carnic mountain at Rosia Montana, and more

07.15.2011

Romania’s Rosia Montana Cultural Foundation will contest in court the archeological discharge certificate issued by the local department of the Culture Ministry for part of the Carnic mountain, one more

07.14.2011

The county department for culture in Alba, western Romania, issued Thursday an archaeological discharge certificate for part of the Carnic mountain, in a bid to preserve archaeological vestiges in more