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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.




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).




Information


Surface: 969.33 square metres (10,433.8 sq ft)
Maximum depth: 27 metres (89 ft)




Lakes of the salt mine


Auster
Lake Avram Iancu-Ocniţa
Balta cu Nămol
Brâncoveanu
Cloşca
Crişan
Lacul Fără Fund
Gura Minei
Horea
Mâţelor
Negru
Pânzelor
Rândunica
Verde (Freshwater lake)
Vrăjitoarelor (Freshwater lake)




References


"Lacuri Naturale". Ocna Sibiului. Archived from the original on 11 June 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Lake Gura Minei
• Lake Brâncoveanu
• Lake Horea
• Lake Avram Iancu-Ocnița
• Lake Rândunica
• Lake Pânzelor
• Lacul Verde (Ocna Sibiului)
• Lake Mâțelor
• Ocna Sibiului mine
• Lacul Negru (Ocna Sibiului)