Human Pressure on the Environment in the “Mun¸tii Maramure¸sului” Natural Park - Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions: Southeastern Europe - page 265

mining activities of both base (Cu, Pb, Zn) and precious metals (Ag, Au), this
activity begun Before Christ and continued with the first important mine works
related to complex raw metal exploitation in the 17th and 18th centuries, while
in 1855, three major mines in the perimeter of Toroiaga Mountain were opened:
Gura Baii, Burloaia and Toroiaga (Fig. 21.8 ). After a throw-back of mining dur-
ing 1990-2005, in 2006 the activity in the region was shut down and the area was
declared disadvantaged.
Fig. 21.8 Abandoned mining exploitation in the Gura Baii open-pit (photo: Mihaela Felciuc)