Lake Gura Minei

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 12000 m2.

Information

 * Surface: 969.33 m2
 * Maximum depth: 27 m

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)