Crișcior (, ) is a commune in

Hunedoara County Hunedoara County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva, Romania, Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as , ...

Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...

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. It is composed of four villages: Barza (''Gurabárza''), Crișcior, Valea Arsului (''Vályaárszuluj''), and Zdrapți (''Zdrápc''). The Cireșata mine is a large

open pit Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or ...

mine situated on the territory of the commune.

Natives

* Arpad Furka (born 1931), organic chemist

References

Communes in Hunedoara County Localities in Transylvania {{Hunedoara-geo-stub