Lake Gura Minei

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Lake Gura Minei
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Lake Gura Minei
Location Ocna Sibiului, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania
Coordinates 45°52′24″N24°03′53″E / 45.8732°N 24.0648°E / 45.8732; 24.0648
Type Salt lake
Native nameLacul Gura Minei (Romanian)
Surface area969.33 m2 (10,433.8 sq ft)
Max. depth27 metres (89 ft)

Lake Gura Minei (Romanian: Lacul Gura Minei) is a natural salt lake in the town of Ocna Sibiului, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is one of the many lakes of the Ocna Sibiului mine, a large salt mine which has one of the largest salt reserves in Romania.

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Ocna Sibiului within the Sibiu County Ocna Sibiului jud Sibiu.jpg
Ocna Sibiului within the Sibiu County

Name

Literally translated from Romanian, "Lacul Gura Minei" means "the mine's mouth lake".

History

Lake Gura Minei was formed by the collapse of a shaft in the north of the Ignaţiu salt mine, opened in 1780. The salt mine was abandoned in 1931 and today forms a huge underground lake with a surface of over 12,000 square metres (130,000 sq ft).

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Lakes of the salt mine

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