Slanic Salt Mine - Romania |
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The „UNIREA" Mine The mine was opened in February 1938, but actual works started in 1943 and continued in 1970. Mining in a descending direction, both horizontal and vertical cutting out with specific cutting equipment, the rocks were dislocated by explosions and then transported by mining car to the shaft and up to the preparation and shipping line. The mine consists of 14 trapezoid-shaped rooms with a ten-meter ceiling and thirty and thirty-two-meter floor width. The height of the rooms is of fifty-four meters and the wall inclination angle is of 60°. The level difference between the surface and the mine hearth is of 208 m. 2.6 million cubic meters of rock salt were excavated during the working of the mine. After 1970 the mine became a tourist attraction. It was adequately modified to accommodate both visitors and patients treated for various respiratory diseases in the fully equipped sanatorium housed inside the mine. Qualified medical personnel attended and assisted asthma patients treated in the salt mine sanatorium. Other rooms house football and handball grounds, a running track and even museum. The works of the sculptor lustin Nastase, among which the busts of the Roman emperor Traian and the Dacian king Decebal and several other pieces presenting relevant elements of the existence of the Dacian and Roman peoples are exhibited in the „Genesis" room. Other representative exhibits are Mihai Viteazu's bas-relief and the bust of the great Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, both created by a local artist, OanaBrezeanu.The Unirea is accessible by elevator, through the August 23rd shaft.
The „MIHAI" Mine Located vertically above the „UnTea" mine and separated from it by a 40-meter thick floor. The mine was opened in 1912 and consists of a 6 trapezoidal-shaped rooms with a twelve-meter ceiling and thirty-seven ight of the rooms is of sixty-six meters and the wall inclination angle is of 60°.Mining was carried out on a descending track. Until 1942, when the Unirea mine was opened, 462.332 cubic meters of rock salt had been excavated. This was the first salt mine in Romania provided with electric lighting floor widths. The height of the rooms is of sixty-six meters and the wall inclination angle is of 60°.Mining was carried out on a descending track. Until 1942, when the Unirea mine was opened, 462.332 cubic meters of rock salt had been excavated. This was the first salt mine in Romania provided with electric lighting floor widths. The height of the rooms is of sixty-six meters and the wall inclination angle is of 60°.Mining was carried out on a descending track. Until 1942, when the Unirea mine was opened, 462.332 cubic meters of rock salt had been excavated. This was the first salt mine in Romania provided with electric lighting. After 1970 the mine has been the host of several national and international model plane-flying contests, occasions on which free access of tourists in the mine is also allowed. In the fall of 1994 both mines were severely damaged by the natural phenomenon of salt dissolution under the influence of ground and pluvial waters, which draining the August 23rd shaft, flooded the Unirea mine. The catastrophic aggressiveness of waters flowing down the shaft gradually created huge cavities and the specialists who evaluated the full scope of the disaster decided the closing down of the mine. Salvation was brought by the brilliant idea of Eugen SCROB, an I.S.P.H.researcher. The hydro-engineers of Emivas Rastolnita immediately applied the new method, helped by the miners of the Slanic mine. It took four years of works to regulate the streambed. Constant drillings monitored the dynamics of landslide and the piezometric level. Also, huge amounts of concrete were used to line the shaft and fill the existing cavities. All costs of these works, amounting to a total of over 20 billion Romanian lei, were exclusively borne by the Slanic salt mine. After the water was evacuated and the hearth of the flooded mine was completely drained, the site was reopened on July 31, 1998.
Other representative exhibits are Mihai Viteazu's bas-relief and the bust of the great Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, both created by a local artist, OanaBrezeanu.The Unirea is accessible by elevator, through the August 23rd shaft.
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