Lake Gura Minei

Lake Gura Minei
Lacul Gura Minei (Romanian)
Lake Gura Minei
Location	Ocna Sibiului, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania
Coordinates	45°52′24″N 24°03′53″E
Type	Salt lake
Surface area	969.33 m^2 (10,433.8 sq ft)
Max. depth	27 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.

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).

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.