Lake Mâțelor

Lake Mâţelor (Lacul Mâţelor) 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
Lacul Mâţelor means lake of the small cats or lake of the kittens.

History
The salt mine on which it is located is not documented, but it was exploited in the late middle-ages with a bell-system, at a depth of more than 80 m through two wells.

Information

 * Surface: 1232.5 m2
 * Maximum Depth: 74.70 m (2nd of the mine's lakes, behind Lake Avram Iancu-Ocniţa)
 * Salinity: 34 g/L at the surface, up to 323 g/L at 8.5 m depth.

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)