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Volume 1

Table of Content

Name of the questioneer Page 1 Anca Monica 12 Bar Sorina 53 Bar Sorina 104 Berindeiu Elena 125 Bexa Daniel 146 Borza Mariana 167 Bujanita Petrica 188 Cioara Sabin 209 Covriga Ioan 23

10 David Stefan 2711 Dragoi Ilie 2812 Felea Gheorghe 2913 Felea Mircea 3214 Furdui Mariana 3315 Guran Cristina Ancuta 3616 Guran Cristina Ancuta 3817 Leah Dorin 4118 Leah Dorin 4319 Leah Ioan 4420 Petrinca Traian 4721 Petrinca Traian 4822 Plesa Constanta 5023 Plesa Constanta 5224 Posogan Izabela 5525 Risteiu Constantin 6026 Serban Horea 6527 Visa Mariana 6728 Leterna Mircea 6829 Leterna Mircea 7030 Lupu Andrei 7331 Lupu Andrei 7532 Trifa Maria 7833 Lazar Dumitru 8134 Lazar Dumitru 8435 Lazar Ileana 8736 Lazar Ileana 8937 Todor Ana 9238 Vranceanu Dan 9739 Man Alexandra 9840 Man Alexandra 10041 Man Alexandru 10342 Man Alexandru 10443 Man Mihai 10744 Man Mihai 108

Name of the questioneer Page 45 Man Mirela 11146 Bolundut Nicolae-ion 11647 Bolundut Nicolae-ion 11748 Danciu Zorita 12049 Danciu Zorita 12250 Vadan Ilie 12551 Vadan Ilie 12652 Armeana Moise 13153 Armeana Moise 13254 Colda Sabin 13555 Colda Sabin 13656 Molnar Cipriana 13857 Molnar Cipriana 13958 Leah Mihaela-Rodica 14059 Leah Mihaela-Rodica 14260 Danciu Daniela 14561 Danciu Daniel Raul 14862 Costea Ovidiu 15163 Costea Ovidiu 15364 Costea Elena 15665 Balea Marcel 15766 Balea Aurelia 15967 Balea Paul 16068 Danciu Gabriel-Claudiu 16169 Oaida Dorin 16270 Oaida Dorin 16671 Oaida Corina 16972 Oaida Corina 17073 Crainic Doina 17174 Crainic Doina 17275 Tomus Laura 17776 Duna Liliana-Gabriela 18177 Duna Liliana-Gabriela 18278 Colda Adriana 18479 Bolundut Florin 18980 Bolundut Marius 19381 Bolundut Marius 19482 Bratean Laura 19783 David Nadia 200

Item no. 1

Stakeholder name Anca Monica

Stakeholder address Com. Ciuruleasa, Sat Burzesti, Nr. 139 A

Question/ Comment

If the hiring starts, will there be anyone employed from Ciuruleasa area? What will the pollution extent be?

Answer

1. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities living around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to qualify for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to lay off part of its labour force as to reduce the costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Beside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, direct and control all relevant development issues in an integrated manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) recognizes that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development

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Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:

• An average number of 2337 jobs during construction for a period of two years, most of them being filled by local labour force;

• 881 jobs during operational stage for a period of 16 years, most of them being filled by local labour force;

• 270 jobs during closure stage for a period of 5-7 years, most of them being filled by local labour force;

• Approx. 6560 indirect jobs during construction stage generated at local and regional levels;

• Approx. 5246 indirect jobs during operational stage generated at local and regional levels;

• Approx. 1811 indirect jobs during closure stage generated at local and regional levels; • US$1.75 billion, representing the share of Romanian Government fro the profits, profit

taxes, royalties and other duties and taxes due toward local, regional and national authorities of Romania;

• US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own businesses as to diversify and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:

• The establishment in the area of a micro-bank that allows access to finance under advantageous conditions;

• Establishment of a business centre and business incubators to offer support, training (entrepreneurial, business plans, administrative and fiscal management, etc.), legal, financial and administrative consultancy, necessary to promote the development of local and regional business environment. This is necessary both for provision of assets and services to RMP and for encouraging the entrepreneurial capacity of locals as to be prepared for the sustainable development needs after completion of RMP.

Material Capital Infrastructure – including buildings, power supply, transportation, water supply and waste management:

• Income for governmental agencies, totalling US$1.75 billion for over 20 years period (construction-production-closure activities), which represents supplementary funds that may be allocated by authorities for the improvement of community infrastructure;

• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Neighbourhood in Alba Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.

Human Capital Includes: health and education:

• Construction of a medical facility and of a private clinic at Piatra Albă, available to the entire community through health insurance systems;

• Modernization of a wing of Abrud Hospital, available for the entire community through the National Health Insurance System;

• Improvement of the medical emergency system in the region; • Construction of a new school and of a new civic and residential centre in Piatra Albă; • Health awareness campaigns (in partnership with local authorities and NGOs) on:

reproduction health, nutrition and lifestyle, etc.



• Partnerships with educational organizations and NGOs on improvement of educational facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).

Social Capital Includes: professional training, strengthening the relations within the community, the social networks and the capacity of institutions to support and preserve the cultural heritage:

• Efforts for the development and promotion of cultural heritage in Roşia Montană both for locals and for tourism purposes – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Cultural Heritage Partnership ([email protected]);

• Education opportunities for adults and improvement of their skills through training programmes, educational funds and scholarships, in order to increase the chances to secure a job both directly with RMGC and indirectly – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Professional and Vocational Training Programme;

• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbour Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRosia ([email protected]);

• RMGC supports the partnership managed by NGOs working with youths in the area for the improvement and upgrade of the community potential (www.certapuseni.ro).

Natural Capital Includes: landscape, biodiversity, water quality, ecosystems:

• Measures included in the management plan of RMP and in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the prevention of accidents and emergencies management shall result in the mitigation of environmental impact and improvement of environmental conditions, as stipulated under EIA;

• Improvement of environmental conditions shall increase life quality at Roşia Montană; • Training and support provided for the integration of environment quality issues into the

business plans; • Awareness campaigns on implementing environmental protection measures within

economic developments; • Imposing environmental standards when granting loans through micro-financing, to

include monitoring of environmental protection measures; • Business Code of Conduct through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe

RMGC standards on environmental protection. 2. The results of the assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after the implementation of the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan on the environment, including transboundary, are described in a synthetic manner and ranked in six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which outline the assessment of the quantified potential effects of the mining project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment factor/aspect, are the following:

• Population - significant positive impact generated by the Project which involves a major investment related to the improvement of short, medium and long-term social and economic conditions in the community.

• Waste management - neutral impact on water and soil quality; The change in use of the lands within the Corna Valley will generate a negative impact during construction and operation which will be significantly mitigated during post-closure as a result of environmental rehabilitation and introduction of the lands into the natural circuit.

• Water - neutral impact with the specification that the proposals regarding the collection and treatment of ARD water from previous mining operations and proper management of



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all waste types will generate a significant positive cumulative impact on surface water and groundwater quality.

• Air - insignificant negative impact, as the contribution of operations to the pollutant concentrations in the ambient air in areas with sensitive receptors will be reduced and the levels cumulative with the contribution of existing sources will be well below limit values.

• Noise and vibrations - insignificant negative impact as the proposed mitigation measures will not generate nuisance noise nor will affect the population or buildings due to vibrations.

• Biodiversity, flora and fauna - negative impact during construction and operation, positive impact after mine closure and revegetation of the area.

• Cultural, architectural and archeological heritage - significant positive impact due to the actions carried out to date by RMGC and measures contained in the Cultural Heritage Management Plan.

• Human health - significant positive impact due to the creation of modern housing conditions, improvement of medical assistance and ensuring of environmental quality in accordance with the legal requirements.

• Road infrastructure/ transport - significant positive impact associated with road infrastructure as a result of its upgrading and increase of traffic safety. Neutral impact associated with the transport related to the Project activities.

• Landscape - insignificant negative impact after the rehabilitation and revegetation of the area, the only significant negative impact at local scale consists in the permanent modification of the topography.

• Soil/land use - neutral impact due to the impact prevention/mitigation measures. • Material assets - positive impact due to the use of local resources and purchase pf

property based on mutually advantageous transactions. Significant positive impact due to the high recovery efficiency of precious metals from ore.

• Climate factors - insignificant negative impact with the specification that the greenhouse gas emission sources will be removed after the mine closure.

• Transboundary effects – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of the surface waters, following a failure of the TMF. The assessment of the transboundary remaining impact on the quality of surface waters related to the break of the Corna Valley dam may be ranked as being neutral. For more detail information, please see Chapter 6 and 7 of the Environmental Report on the Amendment of the Urbanism Zone for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone.


Item no. 2

Stakeholder name Bar Sorina

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str Aleea Florilor, Bl T, Ap9, Et2

Question/ Comment

Upon initiation of mining operations, when does the hiring start?

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair through official letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries



likely to be affected.

• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was put forward to public debate during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Campeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad).

• Public debates were organized in Hungary at Szeged and Budapest as a result of Hungary’s participation in the environmental impact assessment procedure for the Roşia Montană project in transboundary context.

• Based on the results of the public debates MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), reviewed the justified proposals / comments made by the public and requested the project developer to add an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study to include the solutions to the issues raised.

On 31.01.2007, MMDD sent to the project developer, i.e. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA, the form with the remarks and comments of the public, received during the public consultation. On 04.05.2007, the project developer submitted with MMDD their response regarding the remarks and comments of the public, which response is included as an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study. MMDD sent the Appendix to the Report to the environmental impact assessment in electronic format, i.e. CD to the public which formulated remarks and comments. The Technical Review Team set up at central level (TRT) convened on 26.06.2007, 10.07.2007, 19.07.2007 and 09.08.2007. Four sections of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study were reviewed, namely:

• Section 1 – General data • Section 2 - Processes • Sections 3 - Wastes • Section 4 – Potential impact, including transboundary impact, on the environmental

components and mitigation measures, except the sub-section regarding the cultural and ethnical conditions and cultural heritage (8 sub-sections).

On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 has been suspended. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia



Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities living around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to qualify for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to lay off part of its labour force as to reduce the costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Beside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, direct and control all relevant development issues in an integrated manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) recognizes that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:










• US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own business so as to diversify and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:


• Creation of a business centre and incubators to offer support, training (entrepreneurial, business plans, administrative and fiscal management, etc.), legal, financial and administrative consultancy, necessary to promote the development of local and regional business environment. This is necessary both for provision of assets and services to RMP and for encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of locals so as to be prepared for the sustainable development needs after completion of RMP.

Material Capital Infrastructure – to include buildings, power supply, transport, water supply and waste management:

• Income for governmental agencies, totalling US$1.75 billion for over 20 years period (construction-production-closure activities), which represents supplementary funds that may be allocated by authorities for the improvement of community infrastructure;

• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Neighbourhood in Alba Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.


• Construction of a dispensary and of a private clinic at Piatra Albă, available to the entire community through health insurance systems;



reproduction health, nutrition and lifestyle, etc. • Partnerships with educational organizations and NGOs on improvement of educational

facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).




• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the






Roşia Montană Good Neighbourhood Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRosia ([email protected]);



• Measures included in the management plan of RMP and in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the prevention of accidents and emergencies management shall result in the mitigation of environmental impact and improvement of environmental conditions, as stipulated under EIA;


business plans; • Awareness campaigns on implementing environmental protection measures within

economic developments; • Imposing environmental standards when granting loans through micro-financing, to

include monitoring of environmental protection measures; • Business Code of Conduct through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe

RMGC standards on environmental protection. By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.



Item no. 3

Stakeholder name Bar Sorina

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str Aleea Florilor, Bl T, Ap9, Et2

Question/ Comment

Pollution extent

Answer

The results of the assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after the implementation of the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan on the environment, including transboundary, are described in a synthetic manner and ranked in six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which outline the assessment of the quantified potential effects of the mining project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment factor/aspect, are the following:



• Water - neutral impact with the specification that the proposals regarding the collection and treatment of ARD water from previous mining operations and proper management of all waste types will generate a significant positive cumulative impact on surface water and groundwater quality.














• Transboundary effects – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of the surface waters, following a failure of the TMF. The assessment of the transboundary remaining impact on the quality of surface waters related to the break of the Corna Valley dam may be ranked as being neutral. For more detail information, please see Chapter 6 and 7 of the Environmental Report on the Amendment of the Urbanism Zone for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone.


Item no. 4

Stakeholder name Berindeiu Elena

Stakeholder address Com. Ciuruleasa, Sat Buninginea, Nr. 307

Question/ Comment

The pollution extent to be as low as possible

Answer


















• Transboundary effects – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of the surface waters, following a failure of the TMF. The assessment of the transboundary remaining impact on the quality of surface waters related to the break of the Corna Valley dam may be ranked as being neutral. For more detail information, please see Chapter 6 and 7 of the Environmental Report on the Amendment of the Urbanism Zone for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone


Item no. 5

Stakeholder name Bexa Daniel

Stakeholder address Com. Ciuruleasa, Nr. 108A

Question/ Comment

Will Ciuruleasa area be polluted? Will properties be acquired?

Answer

1. No, Ciuruleasa shall not be polluted. The results of the assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after the implementation of the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan on the environment, including transboundary, are described in a synthetic manner and ranked in six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which outline the assessment of the quantified potential effects of the mining project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment factor/aspect, are the following:


















2. The interest area with respect to the land acquisition is the area located under the footprint of Zonal Urbanism Plan prepared for Roşia Montană Industrial Area; the area that you mention is not under the project footprint.


Item no. 6

Stakeholder name Borza Mariana

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Calea Bradului, Nr. 27

Question/ Comment

Will cyanide be used, and what will be the quantity to be used?

Answer

1. The most efficient and economic process for extracting gold and silver from ores like the one existing in Roşia Montană is based on the full cyanide leaching of the mining mass. There are several examples in the world of similar ores that require the application of the cyanide leaching technology in order to economically extract the precious metals. The implementation of the concentration through cyanide leaching in order to recover gold and silver from Roşia Montană gold and silver ore deposit is supported by a detailed testing programme conducted by AMMTEC Limited and AMDEL Limited. The testwork has been planned and supervised by GRD MINPROC Limited, and subsequently the conclusions of the testing programme have been verified and reconfirmed by S.N.C. LAVALIN and AUSENCO. The best practices applied at international and European level have been considered in preparing the cyanide leaching technology for Roşia Montană ore deposit. The technology for the recovery of metals by applying cyanide leaching through the CIL procedure is BAT (Best Available Techniques – BAT) (according to Chpt. 3.1.6.2.2 and Chpt. 5.2 of BREF Guide [1] UE Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities from March 2004). The cyanide shall be delivered as solid, in ISO tanks specially designed and built. Cyanide shall be dissolved directly in the transport tank in an alkaline solution resulted and re-circulated from a mixture tank. The mixture tank is designed to host the entire capacity of a transport tank. After the contents of a tank are fully dissolved, the cyanide solution shall be transferred from the mixture tank in a high capacity storage tank. The fine grinded ore consisting of the fraction resulted at the overflow of hydro-cyclones of ball mils is transferred towards the sink of the pump supplying CIL circuit where is mixed with cyanide and suspended slaked lime, required to regulate the value of the pH. Active carbon is added in the CIL tanks to support the leaching process and the adsorption of dissolved metals. The slurry is undergoing a leaching process in two parallel batteries of 7 CIL tanks, which are provided with agitators. The dimensions of one CIL tank will be D = 18 m x H = 20 m. These tanks have these dimensions so as to provide a sufficient contact time between cyanide solution and, grinded ore and the active carbon. Depending on the needs, sodium cyanide solution is added in no2 and 4 CIL tanks so as to maintain the necessary cyanide concentration within the circuit. The slurry passes the hydro-gravitational cyanide leaching circuit and the carbon advances continuously against the slurry flow with the help of vertical pumps. The advancement time from one tank to another is regulated so as to ensure a gold and silver load onto the carbon raging between 7,000 to 8,000 g/t. The slurry is mixed with flocculants in the supply basin of the tailings thickener; the flocculants facilitate the settlement of solid fraction. The tailings thickener ensures the increase of solid content in the sediment and also the formation of a supernatant relatively cleared. The supernatant discharged from the tailings thickener shall be directed towards grinding circuit for reuse and to recuperate cyanide. The thickened tailings are pumped towards the cyanide detoxification circuit, based on the SO2/air procedure, where WAD Cyanide concentration shall decrease below the limits accepted by Romanian legislation and by the European Union Directive. The Management of the




technological tailings and the detoxification technology are BAT techniques, according to Chpts. 3.1.6.3, 3.1.6.3.2 and 4.3.11.8 (EU Guide, Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities of March 2004). The detoxified tailings shall be pumped towards the tailings management facility. The cyanide used during processing shall be handled/stored in full compliance with the EU standards and with the provisions of International Cyanide Management Code of Cyanide (ICMC- www.cyanidecode.org ), safely kept within plant site in order to prevent any potential leakage. Cyanide and its compounds shall be subjected to the INCO detoxification procedure considered to be the Best Available Technique (BAT), in accordance with BREF document and the tailings shall be discharged in the Tailings Management Facility in accordance with Governmental Decision no. 856/2008 on the management of waste from extractive industries, which incorporates the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE referring to mining industry waste. Most of the cyanide shall be recovered within the plant. Detoxified tailings are the only source of process waste water existing in the Project. The concentrations of the residual cyanide from the tailings slurry will meet the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE on mining wastes that stipulates for a maximum value of 10 ppm CNWAD (weak acid dissociable). The modelling of the predicted concentrations at the Tailings Management Facility showed that the treated tailings slurry is expected to contain 2 to 7 ppm WAD Cyanides. Through a subsequent degradation, these concentrations shall decrease below the values provided for the standards of surface waters (0.1 mg/l) within 1 to 3 years following the closure. A collateral effect of this treatment is also the removal of many of the metals that may appear in the flow of the technologic used waters. After decant, the water is reused in the process; within the Tailings Management Facility, during settlement the following process occur: natural degradation/decomposition of cyanides, hydrolyse, volatilization, photo-oxidation, bio-oxidation, complexation/decomplexation, adsorption onto precipitates, dilution due to precipitation etc. According to the data secured during operation at different mines, variable efficiencies are observed for decucing the cyanide concentrations (from 23-38% to 57-76% for Total Cyanides, and from 21-42% to 71-80% for WAD Cyanides), depending on the season (temperature). A reduction of 50% has been considered as average for CNt concentration at the Tailings Management Facility during operation. According to the modelling conducted for the degradation/decomposing process, it is possible to even have a reduction of 0.1 mg CNt/l in the first three years following closure. Most (90%) of the degraded cyanides (average of 50%) is achieved through hydrolyse/volatilization as hydrocyanic acid. The mathematical modelling of the concentration of hydrocyanic acid at the Tailings Management Facility lead to a maximum concentration of 382 µg/m3 against 5,000 µg/m3, a limit of emissions imposed through MAPPM Order no. 462/1993 issued for the approval of Technical Conditions on Atmospheric Protection and of the Methodological Norms on Determining Air Pollutants produced by stationary sources, with its subsequent amendments and alterations. 2. A pH of 9-11 shall be maintained throughout the entire processing flow, starting with grinding at the ball mils and until discharging at the TMF so as to prevent/minimize/eliminate hydrocyanic acid releases that can be controlled in a base environment. The cyanide consumption within the processing flow will average between 11,000 and 13,000 t per annum, but the cyanide shall be used only within the plant.


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Item no. 7

Stakeholder name Bujanita Petrica

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Ioan Slavici, Nr.3

Question/ Comment

How is the agriculture going to be impacted by Rosia Montana Project?

Answer

The current initial conditions from Rosia Montana as are they emphasized in the baseline reports prepared for EIA prove the current condition of soil on most of the impact area of the Project, a condition that is poor and in many areas polluted by ancient mining works, consisting mainly from 18 waste dumps and ancient tailings management facilities. The soil is supporting only a subsistence agriculture based mainly on hay production (60% of the industrial area of PUZ of 1,646ha), which is used as food source for their stocks and a small production of vegetables. This level of agriculture, as it is presented in the social and economical baseline condition studies is sufficient only to ensure a subsistence level for locals. From the point of view of lands suitability for different cultures and trees, the following paragraphs present the conclusions: “For pastures – lands exhibit a proper suitability but only on 157.56 ha (9.58%), areas located within Rosia Montana and on the right interfluve of Corna Valley;

• class IV – is dominated with 314.60 ha (19.12%), areas located mainly in the northern part of the perimeter;

• class Vth and VIth – consist of 751.38 ha (45.61%), dominating the territory; there are encountered both within Corna Valley as well as west and north of Cârnic – Cetate area;

• the remaining of the lands are distributed in inferior classes (VIIth – Xth) totalling an area of 298.19 ha (18.12%), being encountered within the entire territory.

• For hays stacks – lands are grouped in the classes Vth - VIIIth with an area of 1,213.84 ha (73.71%), being encountered within the entire territory.

• the classes Vth – VIIIth dominate south of Cârnic – Cetate area and in the NW part of the territory, while class VIIIth is encountered west and north of Cârnic – Cetate area;

• classes IIIth and IVth with an area of 166.91 ha (10.15%) are mainly encountered in the northern part of the territory and on the right interfluve of Corna Valley;

• lands with classes IXth and Xth with an area of 140.98 ha (8.57%) are frequently encountered in the northern part of the researched territory.

For potato – lands present a very poor suitability, the classes IXth and Xth covering an area of 1,183.11 ha, i.e. 71.85% of the territory; the remaining lands are classified in classes VIth – VIIIth of suitability with an area of 338.62 ha (20.58%) and are encountered in the north, Rosia Montana area and on the interfluves of Corna Valleys. For apple – the lands classified as IXth and Xth are dominant with an area of 1,038.74 ha (63.07%); classes VIth – VIIIth of suitability cover approx a third of the territory with an area of 482.99 ha (29.36%); the lands of these classes are spread on the entire researched territory.” “Considering the natural conditions (climate, relief, geology, soils) of the area, the dominant usage categories for the lands are represented by natural pastures (pastures, hay lands) and forests. To these there are added the areas of mining operations where landfills, waste dumps as well as movements of rocks accumulated on slopes or at their base may be encountered.




Taking into account these conditions, the management of lands and consequently of the soil was the development of natural resources (pastures, hay lands) for household purposes by their owners: pastures, hay lands for grass and dry hay and also for raising stocks.” Other agricultural cultures, except the ones mentioned above are not suitable for Rosia Montana and they have not been encountered during on site studies. Most of the soils are acid, allowing consequently only subsistence agriculture, which is not competitive within EU. Rosia Montana lands do not allow the development of a modern, mechanized and economic agriculture that would facilitate the economic growth of the area.


Item no. 8

Stakeholder name Cioara Sabin

Stakeholder address Str. Aleea Trandafirilor, Bl. K, Ap. 62

Question/ Comment

If they compensate, they should buy from the area where the apartment buildings are located in Abrud.

Answer

The interest area with respect to the land acquisition is the area located under the footprint of the Zonal Urbanism Plan prepared for Roşia Montană Industrial Area. No, the area where the apartment blocks are located in Abrud is not under the project footprint. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders.



Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:












• Income growth for governmental agencies, totalling US$1.75 billion for over 20 years (construction-production-closure activities), which will constitute supplementary funds that may be allocated by authorities for the improvement of community infrastructure;

• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Quarter in Alba Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.













• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbourhood Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRosia ([email protected]);



• Measures included in the management plan of RMP and in the Standard Operating Procedures for the prevention of accidents and emergencies management (SOP) shall result in the mitigation of environmental impact and improvement of environmental conditions, as stipulated under EIA;


business plans; • Awareness campaigns on having environmental protection measures included in

economic activities; • Imposing environmental standards when granting loans through micro-financing, to

include monitoring of environmental protection measures; • Business Conduct Code through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe RMGC

standards on environmental protection.






Item no. 9

Stakeholder name Covriga Ioan

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Ioan Buteanu, Nr. 1

Question/ Comment

We do not agree with project launch.

Answer

Firstly, we would like to mention the fact that Roşia Montană is already a strongly polluted area following the poor mining methods previously used. Taking into account (i) existing pollution due to previous mining operations and (ii) the intent of SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA (RMGC) to ensure protection of environment during the development of its mining operations as provided under the terms of its Mining License no. 47/1998, RMGC has proposed through its EIA document state-of-the-art practices and solutions that would lead to a decrease of the pollution within the licensed perimeter due to the usage of the Best Available Techniques (BAT). The Project shall meet all requirements as stated by the Romanian and European legislation as well as the best international practices for this field. The EIA also provides details on the mine closure procedures that include a significant environmental rehabilitation of the area. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. The interest area with respect to the land acquisition is the area located under the footprint of the Zonal Urbanism Plan prepared for Roşia Montană Industrial Area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of



the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:













• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Quarter in Alba



Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.

















include monitoring of environmental protection measures; Business Conduct Code through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe RMGC standards on environmental protection.









Item no. 10

Stakeholder name David Stefan

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Bancii, Nr. 3

Question/ Comment

The legislation needs to be observed

Answer

The development of the project proposed by RMGC can not be achieved without a full compliance with all relevant legal requirements for this field. Considering this context, any stakeholder may follow the compliance of mandatory legal procedures, may qualify the assessment method and may formulate objections as provided under the law. Regardless of the abovementioned facts, please be advised that RMGC shall take all necessary measures in order to fully meet in due time all provisions under relevant legislation.



Item no. 11

Stakeholder name Dragoi Ilie

Stakeholder address Rosia Montana, Nr. 523

Question/ Comment

When does hiring start, the people laid-off by RMGC need to be hired first

Answer

By the time the company will employ again, all available jobs will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Locals from Roşia Montană will have priority when contesting for a job positions, at similar skills and professional experience with other candidates for the same position. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with any other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.



Item no. 12

Stakeholder name Felea Gheorghe

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Copiilor, Bl. BR1, Ap. 8

Question/ Comment

Will the apartment buildings area be impacted?

Answer

No, the area where the apartment blocks are located in Abrud is not under the mining project footprint. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented



below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:



















facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership




based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).




• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbour Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRoşia ([email protected]);








standards on environmental protection





Item no. 13

Stakeholder name Felea Mircea

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Ioan Buteanu, Nr. 1, Bl. A, Ap. 18, Et. 4

Question/ Comment

Will the Tailings Management Facility and Dam impact us?

Answer

The design of the dam proposed to be placed on Corna Valle in order to retain processing tailings has been prepared based on designing criteria observing Romanian and international standards. These criteria have the role of providing a maximum safety degree during construction, operation, closure and post-closure stages on the prevention of floods, safety factors of slope stability, seismic design criteria, etc. According to the previously announced criteria, the dam is designed to withstand an 8 Richter degrees earthquake, an event never recorded by the known history on the Romanian territory and it is difficult to imagine the mechanism leading to its occurrence in the future. Some of the main designing elements contributing to the increase of the dam safety are as follows:

• the water storage capacity corresponding to 2 PMF events; • during each rise of the dam, a spillway shall be constructed to discharged in a controlled

manner the excess water resulting after an exceptional event. Therefore, the erosion of downstream slopes of the dam is avoided;

• starter dam, built with rockfill, with a lined core, slopes of 2O:1V at the downstream slope and 1.75O:1V lat the upstream slope;

• Corna Dam (main dam), built with rockfill through centreline raise, with slopes of 3O:1V for downstream slope

• a drainage system at the base of the tailings deposit and a filters area between tailings and rockfill so as to allow decrease of the humidity and stabilization of deposited material;

• a monitoring system installed on the dam and in its close vicinity, aimed at providing at early stages the signals on potential unstable situations, excessive increase of the phreatic levels within dam body, excessive raise of water volume stored in the Tailings Management Faciltiy;

• implementation of a thorough programme of Quality Assurance during dam construction stages.

Taking into account these conditions, production of an accident resulting in dam failure has a very low probability, practically only if a volcano is placed under the dam would cause a dam failure. Moreover, due to the fact that waste damp is placed behind the dam, it may not impact Abrud population or the population from other areas.



Item no. 14

Stakeholder name Furdui Mariana

Stakeholder address Str. Octavian Goga, Nr. 8, Abrud

Question/ Comment

When does hiring start, when do the payments start?

Answer

1. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital



Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:



























• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbourhood Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRoşia ([email protected]);








standards on environmental protection. By the time the company will employ again, all available jobs will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with any other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. 2. Currently, the company has stopped its properties acquisition programme. When the programme restarts, we shall notify all stakeholders. The restart of the acquisition programme for the properties located within Zonal Urbanism Plan footprint depends on the attainment of the environmental permit for the mining project.





Item no. 15

Stakeholder name Guran Cristina Ancuta

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Gheorghe Doja, Nr. 3

Question/ Comment

When does the mine start?

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.




• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was subject to public debate during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Arieş, Lupşa, Bucureşti, Deva, Arad).



On 31.01.2007, MMDD sent to the project developer, i.e. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA, the form with the remarks and comments of the public received during the public consultation. On 04.05.2007, the project developer submitted with MMDD their response regarding the remarks and comments of the public, which response is included as an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study. MMDD sent the Appendix to the Report to the environmental impact assessment in electronic format, i.e. CD to the public which formulated remarks and comments. The Technical Review Team set up at central level (TRT) convened on 26.06.2007, 10.07.2007, 19.07.2007 and 09.08.2007. Four sections of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study were reviewed, namely:



On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement.


Item no. 16

Stakeholder name Guran Cristina Ancuta

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Gheorghe Doja, Nr. 3

Question/ Comment

Jobs need to be created as many as possible

Answer

Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration,



provided by: • An average number of 2337 jobs during construction for a period of two years, most of

them being filled by local labour force; • 881 jobs during operational stage for a period of 16 years, most of them being filled by

local labour force; • 270 jobs during closure stage for a period of 5-7 years, most of them being filled by local

labour force; • Approx. 6560 indirect jobs during construction stage generated at local and regional

levels; • Approx. 5246 indirect jobs during operational stage generated at local and regional

levels; • Approx. 1811 indirect jobs during closure stage generated at local and regional levels; • US$1.75 billion, representing the share of Romanian Government fro the profits, profit















• Efforts for the development and promotion of cultural heritage in Roşia Montană both for





locals and for tourism purposes – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Cultural Heritage Partnership ([email protected]);














Item no. 17

Stakeholder name Leah Dorin

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Serbina, Nr. 10

Question/ Comment

When do you believe that you are going to produce the first gold bullion?

Answer











On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. The first gold ingot shall be produced after mine construction, an operation that will last approx. 2-3 years.


Item no. 18

Stakeholder name Leah Dorin

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Serbina, Nr. 10

Question/ Comment

The way in which the relocation (resettlement) process of households located within project perimeter

Answer

The method selected for establishing the values of Roşia Montană properties fully meets the World Bank recommendations and is based on the “replacement value” in the same conditions. For this purpose, the replacement value has been established based on a real estate market assessment conducted within 14 localities on a 250Km radius around Roşia Montană Commune, an average being established for the observed replacement costs. Cluj is the top city on the list of the localities considered, although is located within the respective radius. If one expects the replacement value should be reported to the Cluj real estate market then it would have no sense in establishing an average. Following the same logic, it wouldn’t have been equitable and fair to establish the replacement value based on the prices recorded in the last city in the regional classification, i.e. Zlatna. Therefore it was considered that the most correct method of establishing the “replacement value” is to make an average of the prices recorded on the 14 markets considered. The current prices for different categories of houses and land positions have been established by considering the prices in Alba Iulia. During the last 6 months, the prices have been reviewed twice depending on the results of the above mentioned assessment.



Item no. 19

Stakeholder name Leah Ioan

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Loc. Anca Virgil, Nr. 30

Question/ Comment

Will hiring be started?

Answer

Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital






































standards on environmental protection. By the time the company will employ again, all available jobs will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with any other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.





Item no. 20

Stakeholder name Petrinca Traian

Stakeholder address Bucium-sat, Nr. 181

Question/ Comment

I want compensation due to pollution and due to the noise above my house

Answer

The interest area with respect to the land acquisition is the area located under the footprint of Zonal Urbanism Plan prepared for Roşia Montană Industrial Area.



Item no. 21

Stakeholder name Petrinca Traian

Stakeholder address Bucium-sat, Nr. 181

Question/ Comment

I am sure that pollution will be in the area after the project is launched: chemical and noise pollution

Answer




















Item no. 22

Stakeholder name Plesa Constanta

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Gura Cornei, Nr. 21

Question/ Comment

The date when the actual works start

Answer













Item no. 23

Stakeholder name Plesa Constanta

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Gura Cornei, Nr. 21

Question/ Comment

When hiring starts, priority should be granted to people who sold their properties

Answer







































standards on environmental protection. By the time the company will employ again, all available jobs will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with any other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. Moreover, we would like to mention the fact that RMGC has committed to provide at least one job for a member of a family that sold its properties, during the mine construction stage.





Item no. 24

Stakeholder name Posogan Izabela

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Zorilor, Bl. T, Ap. 8

Question/ Comment

The Project needs to start as soon as possible, so as to have jobs in the area

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.









On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of



construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:










































Item no. 25

Stakeholder name Risteiu Constantin

Stakeholder address Com Bistra, Sat Garde, Nr. 91

Question/ Comment

When does the mine start? How many people are going to be hired?

Answer










On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of



construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:










• Creation of a business centre and incubators to offer support, training (entrepreneurial,



business plans, administrative and fiscal management, etc.), legal, financial and administrative consultancy, necessary to promote the development of local and regional business environment. This is necessary both for provision of assets and services to RMP and for encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of locals so as to be prepared for the sustainable development needs after completion of RMP.


















business plans;








• Awareness campaigns on having environmental protection measures included in economic activities;

• Imposing environmental standards when granting loans through micro-financing, to include monitoring of environmental protection measures;

• Business Conduct Code through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe RMGC standards on environmental protection.


Item no. 26

Stakeholder name Serban Horea

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Florilor, Bl. K, Ap. 23

Question/ Comment

When does the Project start?

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries





• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was made available for public hearings during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Campeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad).



On 31.01.2007, MMDD sent to the project developer, i.e. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA, the form with the remarks and comments of the public received during the public consultation. On 04.05.2007, the project developer submitted with MMDD their response regarding the remarks and comments of the public, which response is included as an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study. MMDD sent the Appendix to the Report to the environmental impact assessment in electronic format, i.e. CD to the public which formulated remarks and comments. The Technical Assessment Committee set up at central level (TAC) convened on 26.06.2007, 10.07.2007, 19.07.2007 and 09.08.2007. Four chapters of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study were reviewed, namely:

• Chapter 1 – General data • Chapter 2 – Technological Processes • Chapter 3 - Wastes • Chapter 4 – Potential impact, including transboundary impact, on the environmental


On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement.


Item no. 27

Stakeholder name Visa Mariana

Stakeholder address Buninginea, Nr. 437

Question/ Comment

I want to be notified when the hiring starts

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.



Item no. 28

Stakeholder name Leterna Mircea

Stakeholder address Bucium Poieni

Question/ Comment

What is a Zonal Urbanism Plan (PUZ)? What is a General Urbanism Plan (PUG)? What is the difference between the two? Will RMGC come also to Bucium?

Answer

1. According to art. 47 paragraph (1) of Law no. 350/2001 on territorial arrangement and urbanism, the Zonal Urbanism Plan is the instrument for urbanism planning of specific regulation, through which the integrated urbanism development is coordinated for several areas within the locality, which are characterized through an elevated degree of complexity or through an accentuated urban dynamics. The Zonal Urbanism Plan ensures correlation of integrated urbanism development programmes with the General Urbanism Plan. Thus, Zonal Urbanism Plan comprises regulations with respect to the area on: a) organization of streets network; b) architectural and urbanism organization depending on the features of urban structure; c) land usage mode; d) development of urbanism infrastructure; e) legal status and land circulation; and f) protection of historic monuments and servitudes existing in their protection areas. 2. The General Urbanism Plan is a design included in the territorial arrangement and development programme of localities that compose the base territorial-administrative unit. The General Urbanism Plans comprise the analysis, the regulations and the local urbanism rule for the entire administrative territory of the base unit (built-up area, as well as unincorporated area). At the same time the PUG establishes general norms based on which the PUZs and subsequently PUDs are developed in detailed at a lower scale. The General Urbanism Plan comprises short term regulations at the level of the entire territorial-administrative unit on: a) establishing and outlining the built-up area territory in relation with the locality administrative territory; b) establishing the usage modes of lands existing in the built-up area ; c) functional zoning correlated with the organization of traffic network; d) outlining the zones impacted by public servitudes; e) modernization and development of technico-urbanims infrastructure; f) establishing the protected areas and protection areas for the discovered historic monuments and archaeological sites; g) the property types and land legal circulation; h) risk areas due to historic waste deposits, etc. The General Urbanism Plan comprises on medium and long term comprises provisions on: a) future development of the locality; b) areas of natural risk outlined and declared as such in compliance with the law, as well as the specific measures on the risk prevention and mitigation, lands usage and conducting construction works in these areas; c) list of the main development and restructuring projects; d) establishment and outline of the areas with temporary of permanent construction ban areas; e) outline of the areas where urbanism operations of urban regeneration are intended to be developed, etc. 3. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be




assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.


Item no. 29

Stakeholder name Leterna Mircea


Question/ Comment

He wants RMGC to come here so as to create jobs.

Answer

The interest area with respect to the land acquisition is the area located under the footprint of the Zonal Urbanism Plan prepared for Roşia Montană Industrial Area. No, the area where the apartment blocks are located in Abrud is not under the project footprint. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders.



Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:








































Item no. 30

Stakeholder name Lupu Andrei


Question/ Comment

When does RMGC start?

Answer














Item no. 31

Stakeholder name Lupu Andrei


Question/ Comment

He wants RMGC to start in Bucium. He wants jobs for the young people in the area.

Answer

1. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage. 2. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP.



To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:








































Item no. 32

Stakeholder name Trifa Maria


Question/ Comment

When is the mining activity (the project) going to start in Rosia Montana? How is the RMGC's Project going to impact Bucium?

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries










On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Rosia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road




alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Rosia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of:

• 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4%


Item no. 33

Stakeholder name Lazar Dumitru

Stakeholder address Bucium Sasa Nr. 365

Question/ Comment

When does RMGC start? Do they have anything for Bucium?

Answer











On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has




prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.


Item no. 34

Stakeholder name Lazar Dumitru


Question/ Comment

RMGC's Project needs to start as soon as possible so as to have jobs.

Answer












































Item no. 35

Stakeholder name Lazar Ileana


Question/ Comment


Answer














Item no. 36

Stakeholder name Lazar Ileana


Question/ Comment

She wants to be hired at RMGC.

Answer







































standards on environmental protection. By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.





Item no. 37

Stakeholder name Todor Ana

Stakeholder address Bucium Izbita Nr. 426

Question/ Comment

I support the Project and I want the project to start.

Answer











On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages.



To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:








• US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own business so as to diversify



and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:
















• RMGC supports the partnership managed by NGOs working with youths in the area for







the improvement and upgrade of the community potential (www.certapuseni.ro). Natural Capital Includes: landscape, biodiversity, water quality, ecosystems:








Item no. 38

Stakeholder name Vranceanu Dan

Stakeholder address Bucium Poieni , Nr. 741

Question/ Comment

When is RMGC going to come in Bucium? Will RMGC's Project impact Bucium?

Answer

1. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage. 2. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Rosia Montana Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Rosia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Rosia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of:




Item no. 39

Stakeholder name Man Alexandra

Stakeholder address Bucium Sasa, Nr. 7

Question/ Comment


Answer














Item no. 40

Stakeholder name Man Alexandra


Question/ Comment

I want them to start as soon as possible so as to create jobs for young people in the area.

Answer












































Item no. 41

Stakeholder name Man Alexandru


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC going to start in Bucium?

Answer

RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.



Item no. 42

Stakeholder name Man Alexandru


Question/ Comment

I support RMGC's Project, jobs.

Answer












































Item no. 43

Stakeholder name Man Mihai


Question/ Comment

How is Bucium going to be impacted?

Answer

Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Roşia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Rosia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of:




Item no. 44

Stakeholder name Man Mihai


Question/ Comment

I want RMGC's Project to start so as to have jobs here.

Answer












































Item no. 45

Stakeholder name Man Mirela


Question/ Comment

I support RMGC's Project so as to create jobs for us as soon as possible.

Answer











On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages.











• US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own business so as to diversify



and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:
















• RMGC supports the partnership managed by NGOs working with youths in the area for







the improvement and upgrade of the community potential (www.certapuseni.ro). Natural Capital Includes: landscape, biodiversity, water quality, ecosystems:








Item no. 46

Stakeholder name Bolundut Nicolae-ion


Question/ Comment

Will all environmental permits be observed? When does the environmental rehabilitation start?

Answer

1. The development of the project proposed by RMGC can not be achieved without a full observance of relevant legal requirements for this field. Considering this context, any stakeholder may follow the observance of mandatory legal procedures, may qualify the assessment method and may formulate objections as provided under the law. Regardless of the abovementioned facts, please be advised that RMGC shall take all necessary measures in order to fully meet in due time of all provisions under relevant legislation. 2. The environmental rehabilitation of the area shall be conducted in a progressive manner, and shall start even from the operational stage of the Project, from year 5 to be exact, when Cetate Waste Dump rehabilitation shall start.



Item no. 47

Stakeholder name Bolundut Nicolae-ion


Question/ Comment

I want jobs to be created; I support RMGC's Project; the gold needs to remain in the country.

Answer

1. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital






































standards on environmental protection. 2. With respect to the acquisition of gold by the National Bank, we would like to underline the fact that Mining Law no. 85/2003 published in the Romania’s Official Gazette Part I, no. 197/27.03.2003, which constitutes the framework regulation regarding the development of mining activities in Romania, does not contain any provisions on a potential preference right of Romania’s National Bank with respect to metal acquisitions. The orders under the old Mining Law no. 61/1998 that stipulated the pre-emption right of the state in the acquisition of obtained mineral resources, regardless of their nature, “at international prices and under contractual terms” are no longer in force, due to the fact that the Mining Law no. 61/1998 has been fully abrogated by Mining Law no. 85/2003 that does not provide such orders. Consequently, if the National Bank intends to acquire gold, then the Bank may purchase the gold from Roşia Montană at the prices existing on international markets.





Item no. 48

Stakeholder name Danciu Zorita

Stakeholder address Bucium Sasa

Question/ Comment

When does RMGC come?

Answer














Item no. 49

Stakeholder name Danciu Zorita


Question/ Comment

I support the Project so as to have jobs here.

Answer












































Item no. 50

Stakeholder name Vadan Ilie


Question/ Comment


Answer




Item no. 51

Stakeholder name Vadan Ilie


Question/ Comment

I want the Project to start as soon as possible so as to allow RMGC to create jobs for locals

Answer










On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages.













































Item no. 52

Stakeholder name Armeana Moise


Question/ Comment


Answer




Item no. 53

Stakeholder name Armeana Moise


Question/ Comment

He is sorry that He was not born in Corna to sell his/her house and lands to the company

Answer

The interest area with respect to the land acquisition is the area located under the footprint of Zonal Urbanism Plan prepared for Roşia Montană Industrial Area. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented



below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:








































Item no. 54

Stakeholder name Colda Sabin


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC going to start in Bucium What is a PUZ?

Answer

1. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage. 2. According to art. 47 paragraph (1) of Law no. 350/2001 on territorial arrangement and urbanism, the Zonal Urbanism Plan is the instrument for urbanism planning of specific regulation, through which the integrated urbanism development is coordinated for several areas within the locality, which are characterized through an elevated degree of complexity or through an accentuated urban dynamics. The Zonal Urbanism Plan ensures correlation of integrated urbanism development programmes with the General Urbanism Plan. Thus, Zonal Urbanism Plan comprises regulations with respect to the area on: a) organization of streets network; b) architectural and urbanism organization depending on the features of urban structure; c) land usage mode; d) development of urbanism infrastructure; e) legal status and land circulation; and f) protection of historic monuments and servitudes existing in their protection areas.



Item no. 55

Stakeholder name Colda Sabin


Question/ Comment

He wants RMGC to start

Answer













Item no. 56

Stakeholder name Molnar Cipriana

Stakeholder address Bucium Sat

Question/ Comment

How much ore is going to be mined from the new mines?

Answer

A reserve of 215 million t of ore, having an average grade of 1.46g/tAu and 6.9g/tAg, and a total in situ content of 314.11 t Au and 1480.36 t Ag has been outlined between 1997 and 2006.



Item no. 57

Stakeholder name Molnar Cipriana


Question/ Comment

She wants RMGC to come as soon as possible also in Bucium

Answer




Item no. 58

Stakeholder name Leah Mihaela-Rodica

Stakeholder address Bucium Cerbu

Question/ Comment

What is the stage of the environmental project?

Answer

If you are referring to the environmental impact assessment procedure conducted for Roşia Montană Project, we are able to state the followings: SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in




accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.









Item no. 59

Stakeholder name Leah Mihaela-Rodica


Question/ Comment

She supports RMGC's Project

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development.



The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:








































Item no. 60

Stakeholder name Danciu Daniela


Question/ Comment

Will RMGC come to Bucium? How many jobs are generated by RMGC's Project?

Answer

1. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage. 2. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in



parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:








































Item no. 61

Stakeholder name Danciu Daniel Raul


Question/ Comment

What is a PUZ? How many years will RMGC's Project last? How hazardous is cyanide?

Answer

1. According to art. 47 paragraph (1) of Law no. 350/2001 on territorial arrangement and urbanism, the Zonal Urbanism Plan is the instrument for urbanism planning of specific regulation, through which the integrated urbanism development is coordinated for several areas within the locality, which are characterized through an elevated degree of complexity or through an accentuated urban dynamics. The Zonal Urbanism Plan ensures correlation of integrated urbanism development programmes with the General Urbanism Plan. Thus, Zonal Urbanism Plan comprises regulations with respect to the area on: a) organization of streets network; b) architectural and urbanism organization depending on the features of urban structure; c) land usage mode; d) development of urbanism infrastructure; e) legal status and land circulation; and f) protection of historic monuments and servitudes existing in their protection areas. 2. RMGC Project provides:

• 2 years for the mine construction stage • 16 years for the operational stage • 7 years for the closure and environmental rehabilitation stage, with the stipulation that

the environmental rehabilitation is conducted in a progressive manner, starting with year 5 of the operational stage.

The stage of post-closure and monitoring of the environmental factors - until we are sure that all environmental factors meet the legal parameters (currently this period is estimated to last up to 50 years) 3. The most efficient and economic process for extracting gold and silver from ores like the one existing in Roşia Montană is based on the full cyanide leaching of the mining mass. There are several examples in the world of similar ores that require the application of the cyanide leaching technology in order to economically extract the precious metals. The implementation of the concentration through cyanide leaching in order to recover gold and silver from Roşia Montană gold and silver ore deposit is supported by a detailed testing programme conducted by AMMTEC Limited and AMDEL Limited. The testwork has been planned and supervised by GRD MINPROC Limited, and subsequently the conclusions of the testing programme have been verified and reconfirmed by S.N.C. LAVALIN and AUSENCO. The best practices applied at international and European level have been considered in preparing the cyanide leaching technology for Roşia Montană ore deposit. The technology for the recovery of metals by applying cyanide leaching through the CIL procedure is BAT (Best Available Techniques – BAT) (according to Chpt. 3.1.6.2.2 and Chpt. 5.2 of BREF Guide [1] UE Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities from March 2004). The cyanide shall be delivered as solid, in ISO tanks specially designed and built. Cyanide shall be dissolved directly in the transport tank in an alkaline solution resulted and re-circulated from a mixture tank. The mixture tank is designed to host the entire capacity of a transport tank. After the contents of a tank are fully dissolved, the cyanide solution shall be transferred from the mixture tank in a high capacity storage tank. The fine grinded ore consisting of the fraction resulted at the overflow of hydro-cyclones of ball mils is transferred towards the sink of the pump supplying CIL circuit where is mixed with cyanide



and suspended slaked lime, required to regulate the value of the pH. Active carbon is added in the CIL tanks to support the leaching process and the adsorption of dissolved metals. The slurry is undergoing a leaching process in two parallel batteries of 7 CIL tanks, which are provided with agitators. The dimensions of one CIL tank will be D = 18 m x H = 20 m. These tanks have these dimensions so as to provide a sufficient contact time between cyanide solution and, grinded ore and the active carbon. Depending on the needs, sodium cyanide solution is added in no2 and 4 CIL tanks so as to maintain the necessary cyanide concentration within the circuit. The slurry passes the hydro-gravitational cyanide leaching circuit and the carbon advances continuously against the slurry flow with the help of vertical pumps. The advancement time from one tank to another is regulated so as to ensure a gold and silver load onto the carbon raging between 7,000 to 8,000 g/t. The slurry is mixed with flocculants in the supply basin of the tailings thickener; the flocculants facilitate the settlement of solid fraction. The tailings thickener ensures the increase of solid content in the sediment and also the formation of a supernatant relatively cleared. The supernatant discharged from the tailings thickener shall be directed towards grinding circuit for reuse and to recuperate cyanide. The thickened tailings are pumped towards the cyanide detoxification circuit, based on the SO2/air procedure, where WAD Cyanide concentration shall decrease below the limits accepted by Romanian legislation and by the European Union Directive. The Management of the technological tailings and the detoxification technology are BAT techniques, according to Chpts. 3.1.6.3, 3.1.6.3.2 and 4.3.11.8 (EU Guide, Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities of March 2004). The detoxified tailings shall be pumped towards the tailings management facility. The cyanide used during processing shall be handled/stored in full compliance with the EU standards and with the provisions of International Cyanide Management Code of Cyanide (ICMC- www.cyanidecode.org ), safely kept within plant site in order to prevent any potential leakage. Cyanide and its compounds shall be subjected to the INCO detoxification procedure considered to be the Best Available Technique (BAT), in accordance with BREF document and the tailings shall be discharged in the Tailings Management Facility in accordance with Governmental Decision no. 856/2008 on the management of waste from extractive industries, which incorporates the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE referring to mining industry waste. Most of the cyanide shall be recovered within the plant. Detoxified tailings are the only source of process waste water existing in the Project. The concentrations of the residual cyanide from the tailings slurry will meet the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE on mining wastes that stipulates for a maximum value of 10 ppm CNWAD (weak acid dissociable). The modelling of the predicted concentrations at the Tailings Management Facility showed that the treated tailings slurry is expected to contain 2 to 7 ppm WAD Cyanides. Through a subsequent degradation, these concentrations shall decrease below the values provided for the standards of surface waters (0.1 mg/l) within 1 to 3 years following the closure. A collateral effect of this treatment is also the removal of many of the metals that may appear in the flow of the technologic used waters. After decant, the water is reused in the process; within the Tailings Management Facility, during settlement the following process occur: natural degradation/decomposition of cyanides, hydrolyse, volatilization, photo-oxidation, bio-oxidation, complexation/decomplexation, adsorption onto precipitates, dilution due to precipitation etc. According to the data secured during operation at different mines, variable efficiencies are observed for decucing the cyanide concentrations (from 23-38% to 57-76% for Total Cyanides, and from 21-42% to 71-80% for WAD Cyanides), depending on the season (temperature).





A reduction of 50% has been considered as average for CNt concentration at the Tailings Management Facility during operation. According to the modelling conducted for the degradation/decomposing process, it is possible to even have a reduction of 0.1 mg CNt/l in the first three years following closure. Most (90%) of the degraded cyanides (average of 50%) is achieved through hydrolyse/volatilization as hydrocyanic acid. The mathematical modelling of the concentration of hydrocyanic acid at the Tailings Management Facility lead to a maximum concentration of 382 µg/m3 against 5,000 µg/m3, a limit of emissions imposed through MAPPM Order no. 462/1993 issued for the approval of Technical Conditions on Atmospheric Protection and of the Methodological Norms on Determining Air Pollutants produced by stationary sources, with its subsequent amendments and alterations. A pH of 9-11 shall be maintained throughout the entire processing flow, starting with grinding at the ball mils and until discharging at the TMF so as to prevent/minimize/eliminate hydrocyanic acid releases that can be controlled in a base environment.


Item no. 62

Stakeholder name Costea Ovidiu


Question/ Comment

How much gold is estimated to be? Will RMGC start?

Answer

1. A reserve of 215 million t of ore, having an average grade of 1.46g/tAu and 6.9g/tAg, and a total in situ content of 314.11 t Au and 1480.36 t Ag has been outlined between 1997 and 2006. 2. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in




accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.









Item no. 63

Stakeholder name Costea Ovidiu


Question/ Comment

He wants the Project to start so as to have jobs in the area

Answer












































Item no. 64

Stakeholder name Costea Elena


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC going to come to Bucium? How is RMGC's Project going to impact Bucium commune?

Answer

1. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage. 2. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Roşia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Roşia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of: - 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4%



Item no. 65

Stakeholder name Balea Marcel


Question/ Comment

When does RMGC start in Rosia Montana?

Answer













Item no. 66

Stakeholder name Balea Aurelia


Question/ Comment

She wants RMGC to come in Bucium too.

Answer




Item no. 67

Stakeholder name Balea Paul


Question/ Comment

Will RMGC come to Bucium also? Will the new Rosia Montana be established at Piatra Alba?

Answer

1. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage. 2. Currently the company is in the stage of obtaining all endorsements/approvals/permits required to initiate the construction of the new administrative centre. The company shall launch the construction of the new Piatra Albă centre as soon as the abovementioned permits are secured. We would like to state that the construction design for a new administrative centre is completed. For further details on the New Roşia Montană please see the website www.piatraalba.eu



http://www.piatraalba.eu/

Item no. 68

Stakeholder name Danciu Gabriel-Claudiu


Question/ Comment

How much (%) interest is hold by the Romanian State in this investment? When does expropriation process start in Bucium? How much will be covered by the Project through its industrial area from Rosia Montana commune?

Answer

1. The Romanian State, through National Company Minvest SA Deva, owns a share of 19.31% of SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA (RMGC), and therefore of Roşia Montană Project. This participation is full and by law, without the obligation to finance the participation to the capital investment. 2. In compliance with the recommendations regarding the resettlement and relocation of the population issued by World Bank, the company has developed an acquisition programme for Roşia Montană Project in order to purchase the properties required in order to develop the project. RMGC’s approach in this respect is based on the free will sale-purchase principle. In this respect, RMGC has provided fair compensatory packages to the locals who are impacted by the project, in full observance of the World Bank policies for this field. As far as the land acquisition process is concerned the interest area is the one located under the footprint of the Zonal Urbanism Plan for Roşia Montană Industrial Area. 3. RMGC proposed project requires an are of:

• 1054 ha of the administrative territory of Roşia Montană Commune, which covers 4200 ha, and that represents approx. 25 %

• 170 ha of the administrative territory of the City of Abrud, which covers 3500 ha, and that represents 5 %

• 32 ha of the administrative territory of Bucium, which covers 8778 ha, and that represents 0.4 %

• 1.6 ha of the administrative territory of Câmpeni, which covers 8520 ha, and that represents 0.02 %



Item no. 69

Stakeholder name Oaida Dorin


Question/ Comment

Will RMGC's Project start? Will Bucium be impacted by RMGC's Project? How hazardous is cyanide?

Answer










On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC challenged the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Roşia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Roşia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC



Project needs an area of: - 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4% 3. The most efficient and economic process for extracting gold and silver from ores like the one existing in Roşia Montană is based on the full cyanide leaching of the mining mass. There are several examples in the world of similar ores that require the application of the cyanide leaching technology in order to economically extract the precious metals. The implementation of the concentration through cyanide leaching in order to recover gold and silver from Roşia Montană gold and silver ore deposit is supported by a detailed testing programme conducted by AMMTEC Limited and AMDEL Limited. The testwork has been planned and supervised by GRD MINPROC Limited, and subsequently the conclusions of the testing programme have been verified and reconfirmed by S.N.C. LAVALIN and AUSENCO. The best practices applied at international and European level have been considered in preparing the cyanide leaching technology for Roşia Montană ore deposit. The technology for the recovery of metals by applying cyanide leaching through the CIL procedure is BAT (Best Available Techniques – BAT) (according to Chpt. 3.1.6.2.2 and Chpt. 5.2 of BREF Guide [1] UE Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities from March 2004). The cyanide shall be delivered as solid, in ISO tanks specially designed and built. Cyanide shall be dissolved directly in the transport tank in an alkaline solution resulted and re-circulated from a mixture tank. The mixture tank is designed to host the entire capacity of a transport tank. After the contents of a tank are fully dissolved, the cyanide solution shall be transferred from the mixture tank in a high capacity storage tank. The fine grinded ore consisting of the fraction resulted at the overflow of hydro-cyclones of ball mils is transferred towards the sink of the pump supplying CIL circuit where is mixed with cyanide and suspended slaked lime, required to regulate the value of the pH. Active carbon is added in the CIL tanks to support the leaching process and the adsorption of dissolved metals. The slurry is undergoing a leaching process in two parallel batteries of 7 CIL tanks, which are provided with agitators. The dimensions of one CIL tank will be D = 18 m x H = 20 m. These tanks have these dimensions so as to provide a sufficient contact time between cyanide solution and, grinded ore and the active carbon. Depending on the needs, sodium cyanide solution is added in no2 and 4 CIL tanks so as to maintain the necessary cyanide concentration within the circuit. The slurry passes the hydro-gravitational cyanide leaching circuit and the carbon advances continuously against the slurry flow with the help of vertical pumps. The advancement time from one tank to another is regulated so as to ensure a gold and silver load onto the carbon raging between 7,000 to 8,000 g/t. The slurry is mixed with flocculants in the supply basin of the tailings thickener; the flocculants facilitate the settlement of solid fraction. The tailings thickener ensures the increase of solid content in the sediment and also the formation of a supernatant relatively cleared. The supernatant discharged from the tailings thickener shall be directed towards grinding circuit for reuse and to recuperate cyanide. The thickened tailings are pumped towards the cyanide detoxification circuit, based on the SO2/air procedure, where WAD Cyanide concentration shall decrease below the limits accepted by Romanian legislation and by the European Union Directive. The Management of the technological tailings and the detoxification technology are BAT techniques, according to Chpts. 3.1.6.3, 3.1.6.3.2 and 4.3.11.8 (EU Guide, Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities of March 2004). The detoxified tailings shall be pumped towards the tailings management facility. The cyanide used during processing shall be handled/stored in full compliance with the EU standards and with the provisions of International Cyanide Management Code of Cyanide (ICMC- www.cyanidecode.org ), safely kept within plant site in order to prevent any potential leakage. Cyanide and its compounds shall be subjected to the INCO detoxification procedure considered to be the Best Available Technique (BAT), in accordance with BREF document and the tailings shall be discharged in the Tailings Management Facility in accordance with





Governmental Decision no. 856/2008 on the management of waste from extractive industries, which incorporates the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE referring to mining industry waste. Most of the cyanide shall be recovered within the plant. Detoxified tailings are the only source of process waste water existing in the Project. The concentrations of the residual cyanide from the tailings slurry will meet the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE on mining wastes that stipulates for a maximum value of 10 ppm CNWAD (weak acid dissociable). The modelling of the predicted concentrations at the Tailings Management Facility showed that the treated tailings slurry is expected to contain 2 to 7 ppm WAD Cyanides. Through a subsequent degradation, these concentrations shall decrease below the values provided for the standards of surface waters (0.1 mg/l) within 1 to 3 years following the closure. A collateral effect of this treatment is also the removal of many of the metals that may appear in the flow of the technologic used waters. After decant, the water is reused in the process; within the Tailings Management Facility, during settlement the following process occur: natural degradation/decomposition of cyanides, hydrolyse, volatilization, photo-oxidation, bio-oxidation, complexation/decomplexation, adsorption onto precipitates, dilution due to precipitation etc. According to the data secured during operation at different mines, variable efficiencies are observed for decucing the cyanide concentrations (from 23-38% to 57-76% for Total Cyanides, and from 21-42% to 71-80% for WAD Cyanides), depending on the season (temperature). A reduction of 50% has been considered as average for CNt concentration at the Tailings Management Facility during operation. According to the modelling conducted for the degradation/decomposing process, it is possible to even have a reduction of 0.1 mg CNt/l in the first three years following closure. Most (90%) of the degraded cyanides (average of 50%) is achieved through hydrolyse/volatilization as hydrocyanic acid. The mathematical modelling of the concentration of hydrocyanic acid at the Tailings Management Facility lead to a maximum concentration of 382 µg/m3 against 5,000 µg/m3, a limit of emissions imposed through MAPPM Order no. 462/1993 issued for the approval of Technical Conditions on Atmospheric Protection and of the Methodological Norms on Determining Air Pollutants produced by stationary sources, with its subsequent amendments and alterations.


Item no. 70

Stakeholder name Oaida Dorin


Question/ Comment

He wants RMGC to come so as to create jobs for young people

Answer












































Item no. 71

Stakeholder name Oaida Corina


Question/ Comment

How is Bucium impacted by this Project?

Answer

Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Roşia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Roşia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of: - 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4%



Item no. 72

Stakeholder name Oaida Corina


Question/ Comment

She would like RMGC to come to Bucium as soon as possible

Answer




Item no. 73

Stakeholder name Crainic Doina


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC going to come to Bucium?

Answer




Item no. 74

Stakeholder name Crainic Doina


Question/ Comment

She wants RMGC to start so as to have jobs for young people. She knows people that worked with cyanide and she states that it is not hazardous

Answer

1. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development




































standards on environmental protection. 2. The most efficient and economic process for extracting gold and silver from ores like the one existing in Roşia Montană is based on the full cyanide leaching of the mining mass. There are several examples in the world of similar ores that require the application of the cyanide leaching technology in order to economically extract the precious metals. The implementation of the concentration through cyanide leaching in order to recover gold and silver from Roşia Montană gold and silver ore deposit is supported by a detailed testing programme conducted by AMMTEC Limited and AMDEL Limited. The testwork has been planned and supervised by GRD MINPROC Limited, and subsequently the conclusions of the testing programme have been verified and reconfirmed by S.N.C. LAVALIN and AUSENCO. The best practices applied at international and European level have been considered in preparing the cyanide leaching technology for Roşia Montană ore deposit. The technology for the recovery of metals by applying cyanide leaching through the CIL procedure is BAT (Best Available Techniques – BAT) (according to Chpt. 3.1.6.2.2 and Chpt. 5.2 of BREF Guide [1] UE Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities from March 2004). The cyanide shall be delivered as solid, in ISO tanks specially designed and built. Cyanide shall be dissolved directly in the transport tank in an alkaline solution resulted and re-circulated from a







mixture tank. The mixture tank is designed to host the entire capacity of a transport tank. After the contents of a tank are fully dissolved, the cyanide solution shall be transferred from the mixture tank in a high capacity storage tank. The fine grinded ore consisting of the fraction present at the overflow of hydro-cyclones of ball mils is transferred towards the sink of the pump supplying CIL circuit where is mixed with cyanide and suspended slaked lime, required to regulate the value pf the pH. Active carbon is added in the CIL tanks to support the leaching process and the adsorption of dissolved metals. The slurry is undergoing a leaching process in two parallel batteries of 7 CIL tanks, which are provided with agitators. The dimensions of one CIL tank will be D = 18 m x H = 20 m. These tanks have these dimensions so as to provide a sufficient contact time between cyanide solution and, grinded ore and the active carbon. Depending on the needs, sodium cyanide solution is added in no2 and 4 CIL tanks so as to maintain the necessary cyanide concentration within the circuit. The slurry passes the hydro-gravitational cyanide leaching circuit and the carbon advances continuously against the slurry flow with the help of vertical pumps. The advancement time from one tank to another is regulated so as to ensure a gold and silver load onto the carbon raging between 7,000 to 8,000 g/t. The slurry is mixed with flocculants in the supply basin of the tailings thickener; the flocculants facilitate the settlement of solid fraction. The tailings thickener ensures the increase of solid content in the sediment and also the formation of a supernatant relatively cleared. The supernatant discharged from the tailings thickener shall be directed towards grinding circuit for reuse and to recuperate cyanide. The thickened tailings are pumped towards the cyanide detoxification circuit, based on the SO2/air procedure, where WAD Cyanide concentration shall decrease below the limits accepted by Romanian legislation and by the European Union Directive. The Management of the technological tailings and the detoxification technology are BAT techniques, according to Chpts. 3.1.6.3, 3.1.6.3.2 and 4.3.11.8 (EU Guide, Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities of March 2004). The detoxified tailings shall be pumped towards the tailings management facility. The cyanide used during processing shall be handled/stored in full compliance with the EU standards and with the provisions of International Cyanide Management Code of Cyanide (ICMC- www.cyanidecode.org ), safely kept within plant site in order to prevent any potential leakage. Cyanide and its compounds shall be subjected to the INCO detoxification procedure considered to be the Best Available Technique (BAT), in accordance with BREF document and the tailings shall be discharged in the Tailings Management Facility in accordance with Governmental Decision no. 856/2008 on the management of waste from extractive industries. Most of the cyanide shall be recuperated within the plant. Detoxified tailings are the only source of process waste water existing in the Project. The concentrations of the residual cyanide from the tailings slurry would have to meet the provisions under EU Directive 2006/21/CE on mining wastes that stipulate for a maximum value of 10 ppm CNWAD (weak acid dissociable). The modelling of the predicted concentrations at the Tailings Management Facility showed that the treated tailings slurry is expected to contain 2 to 7 ppm WAD Cyanides. Through a subsequent degradation, these concentrations shall decrease below the values provided for the standards of surface waters (0.1 mg/l) within 1 to 3 years from closure. A collateral effect of this treatment is also the removal of many of the metals that may appear in the flow of the technologic used waters. After decant, the water is reused in the process; within the Tailings Management Facility, during settlement the following process occur: natural degradation/decomposition of cyanides, hydrolyse, volatilization, photo-oxidation, bio-oxidation, complexation/decomplexation, adsorption onto precipitates, dilution due to precipitation etc.





According to the data secured during operation at different mines, variable efficiencies are observed for decucing the cyanide concentrations (from 23-38% to 57-76% for Total Cyanides, and from 21-42% to 71-80% for WAD Cyanides), depending on the season (temperature). A reduction of 50% has been considered as average for CNt concentration at the Tailings Management Facility during operation. According to the modelling conducted for the de degradation/decomposing process, it is possible to even have a reduction of 0.1 mg CNt/l in the first three years after closure. Most (90%) of the degraded cyanides (average of 50%) is achieved through hydrolyse/volatilization as hydrocyanic acid. The mathematical modelling of the concentration of hydrocyanic acid at the Tailings Management Facility lead to a maximum concentration of 382 µg/m3 against 5,000 µg/m3, a limit of emissions imposed through MAPPM Order no. 462/1993 issued for the approval of Technical Conditions on Atmospheric Protection and of the Methodological Norms on Determining Air Pollutants produced by stationary sources, with its subsequent amendments and alterations.


Item no. 75

Stakeholder name Tomus Laura


Question/ Comment

How is Bucium impacted? Do they have something for Bucium Cerbu?

Answer

1. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Rosia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Rosia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of: 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4%. 2. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. The results of the exploration have not identified reserves for Bucium Cerbu that may be mined and consequently no mining activities are to be developed in the respective area. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve



the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:












• Income growth for governmental agencies, totalling US$1.75 billion for over 20 years (construction-production-closure activities), which will constitute supplementary funds



that may be allocated by authorities for the improvement of community infrastructure; • Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Quarter in Alba

Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.



























Item no. 76

Stakeholder name Duna Liliana-Gabriela

Stakeholder address Bucium Izbita

Question/ Comment

Is there a project proposed for Bucium? Is there an ore deposit within Bucium commune boundaries?

Answer




Item no. 77

Stakeholder name Duna Liliana-Gabriela

Stakeholder address Bucium Izbita

Question/ Comment

I want to learn all the news about the Project

Answer





• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was put forward to public debate

during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Campeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad).






On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. Moreover, each issue of “Ziarul de Apuseni” newspaper will present a page dedicated to the project where news may be learnt about the Roşia Montană Project.


Item no. 78

Stakeholder name Colda Adriana


Question/ Comment

How many jobs will be created by RMGC if the new Project starts? Are there any chances for RMGC to start?

Answer

1. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development




































standards on environmental protection. 2. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană







project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.

• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was put forward to public debate during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Campeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad).




• Section 1 – General data • Section 2 - Processes




• Sections 3 - Wastes • Section 4 – Potential impact, including transboundary impact, on the environmental


On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement.


Item no. 79

Stakeholder name Bolundut Florin


Question/ Comment

How many jobs will be created by RMGC's Project? How polluted the area will get? Are there any re-qualification courses in development? Are there any NGOs against RMGC's Project?

Answer

1. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development.




































standards on environmental protection. 2. The results of the assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after the implementation of the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan on the environment, including transboundary, are described in a synthetic manner and ranked in six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which outline the assessment of the quantified potential effects of the mining project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment factor/aspect, are the following:



• Water - neutral impact with the specification that the proposals regarding the collection and treatment of ARD water from previous mining operations and proper management of








all waste types will generate a significant positive cumulative impact on surface water and groundwater quality.












3. We hereby invite the stakeholders (institutions or NGOs) to approach us in order to conclude partnerships in order to monitor the project. The monitoring programme prepared by Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) will be developed in a transparent manner, allowing the parties to assess the progress of its efficiency and to offer suggestions; this will support the implementation of the updates of the programme. This process shall continue during the life of the project, in order to maximize the benefits and mitigate the negative impact.


Item no. 80

Stakeholder name Bolundut Marius


Question/ Comment

How long will RMGC's Project last? When is RMGC going to come to Bucium?

Answer

1. RMGC Project provides:

• 2 years for the mine construction stage • 16 years for the operational stage • 7 years for the closure and environmental rehabilitation stage, with the stipulation that

the environmental rehabilitation is conducted in a progressive manner, starting with year 5 of the operational stage.

The stage of post-closure and monitoring of the environmental factors - until we are sure that all environmental factors meet the legal parameters (currently this period is estimated to last up to 50 years) 2. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.



Item no. 81

Stakeholder name Bolundut Marius


Question/ Comment

I want jobs for the young people from Bucium Poieni?

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development











































Item no. 82

Stakeholder name Bratean Laura


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC going to start in Rosia Montana? How is Bucium going to be impacted?

Answer




• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was put forward to public debate

during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Campeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad).






On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Rosia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only




access road between Rosia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of: 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4%.


Item no. 83

Stakeholder name David Nadia


Question/ Comment

Where is new county road DJ 742 going to be built the? What is the impact of this road on Bucium Commune?

Answer

1. Through the proposal of Zonal Urbanism Plan – County Road DJ742 diversion is proposed in accordance with the approved PUG: County Road DJ 107 I (Bucium Sat ) – Rosia Poieni mine road, a new road allowing access to vehicles travelling from National Road DN 74. the road is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Rosia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Rosia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. 2. Project implementation involves alterations of the current configuration of the road infrastructure and its modernization, by building new access and technological roads, as well as diversions to ensure the connection with national roads. This road shall impact only 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium Commune, i.e. 0.4% of the total area covered by the administrative territory.



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