Location Ghelari Country Romania Opened 1900 | Commune Hunedoara County Financial year 2008 | |
Products Iron ore, sometimes Magnetite, Siderite, Limonite, in pockets: Hematite. Production 200,000 tonnes of iron ore | ||
The Ghelari mine was a large open pit, also an underground iron ore mine in the western of Romania in Hunedoara County, 20 km south-west of Hunedoara and 411 km north-west of the capital, Bucharest. Ghelari represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Romania having estimated reserves of 14 million tonnes of ore. The mine produced around 200,000 tonnes of iron ore/year.
Map of Ghelari, Romania
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