- Romania’s domestic spy agency has been monitoring developments involving Gabriel Resources' (OTCPK:GBRRF) planned Rosia Montana gold mine for years, its chief acknowledges, saying some demonstrations against the project have been manipulated by “eco-anarchists."
- The country's president, however, had said the protests opposing the mine were genuine while rallies in support of the mine in Transylvania were “fabricated.”
- Rosia Montana would be Europe's biggest gold mine, sitting on ~314 tons of gold and 1,500 tons of silver; proponents have been trying to get permits for 14 years but so far no date has been set for it to begin operating.