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Room 2 / Mining

You can understand the oldest occupation of the residents from Roşia Montană mining, only if you also learn the practical details: how, by what means, with what risks did these people bring the gold out to the surface.The galleries dug over so many years tell also the story of the mountain: we have here samples of rock exemplifying the mineralogy of the deposit from Roșia Montana. Also here we find tools which opened hundreds of kilometers through rock, in addition to lighting tools used in the underground from the Roman to the contemporary period.

Also here we find tools which opened hundreds of kilometers through rock, in addition to lighting tools used in the underground from the Roman to the contemporary period.

In the middle of the room, an ore-transportation wagon, made of wood, common to the underground exploitations from Roșia Montană and Bucium, used until the beginning of the 20th century, is exhibited. It was found in 2002 and was preserved and restored by an expert from Bucovina Museum Facility from Suceava. The exhibits are heritage items under the custody of the Romanian National History Museum.