Geamăna is an abandoned village
in Romania and it is truly looks like an amazing place but it has a very sad
story which starts when the valley was flooded by toxic water from a
copper-open-pit mine (Roșia Poieni). Copper exploitation at the mines of Rosia
Poieni in the Apuseni Mountains, in Alba County, in Romania, was like a scourge
for residents of the twin villages located in the foothills where excavations
were carried out. Their ordeal started in 1977, when Romania’s communist
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided to exploit the massive copper deposit
discovered underground.
The government forced the residents
of the nearby village of Geamana to quit their homes and abandon their way of
life in order to make way for the toxic waste from Roşia Poieni mining pit. There’re
about 400 families were exiled and their village swapped by an artificial lake
that served as a kind of catch-basin for the mine’s contaminated sludge to flow
into. The lake water is highly toxic laced with cyanide and other chemicals. As
the lake grew, it surrounded what was once an attractive village. Few towers and
houses are all that remains today.
Source: Amusing Planet
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