Băița (Bihor)
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Băița Rézbánya |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Screeching area | ||||
| Circle : | Bihor | ||||
| Municipality : | Nucet | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 29 ' N , 22 ° 35' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 435 m | ||||
| Residents : | 598 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 415401 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 59 | ||||
| License plate : | bra | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Băița (Hungarian Rézbánya ) is a Romanian mining settlement in the municipality of Nucet in Bihor County . The place is not far from the source of the Crișul Negru and the summit Cucurbăta Mare (1,849 m).
Băița is a village that has practiced the mining tradition (such as uranium , bismuth , molybdenum , iron , silver , copper and gold ) for centuries.
Since the Romanian Western Carpathians are rich in limestone, there are numerous caves in the region and marble open-cast mines exist.
The Padiș National Park in the Bihor Mountains , about 30-40 km away, is a tourist attraction.
history
About 400 years ago, German settlers came as miners who were then exploiting silver, copper and gold ore.
A sign on the Catholic Church reminds of this past, on which it says that the church was founded in Maria Theresa's time. Many documents were destroyed by the communist authorities.
In the 1950s, about 10 years of intensive uranium exploitation was carried out with around 20,000 miners and 10,000 soldiers, according to statistics, over 300,000 tons of the highest quality uranium ore were delivered to the Soviet Union from the Avram Iancu mine alone .
During this time (around 1952) two new cities emerged, namely the city of Nucet, 2 km away, and Ștei , which is about 15 km from Băița.
Today in Băița is the only nuclear waste repository in Romania, which was opened in 1985 and which is used to store low and medium-level radioactive waste.
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