On the 25th of August, the participants of the Erasmus IP visited Roşia Montană/Verespatak (Alburnus Maior), which was one of the most important gold mining sites of Roman Dacia. Several mining galleries have been identified during the archaeological researches, and the site is also famous as the findspot of the famous Roman wax writing tablets. Besides these unique finds, the civilian settlement of Alburnus Maior has also yielded some important epigraphic monuments. These altars and stela frequently attest the presence of Illyrian miner colonists, who lived in the settlement and worked in the mines, since they were experts in gold and silver mining in their homelands.
Beneath the small town of Rosia Montana one of the largest gold deposit in the World are buried, so due to the fact that the joint venture Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) secured the license to extract the deposit by strip-mining, the country and also the wider public is divided because of its environmental issues and the endangerment of the historical and archaeological heritage of the area.
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