Today I'm moving the boundary between Romania and Hungary (sorry, Cluj-Napoca, but you're Kolozsvar again), studying the history of Baia Mare--oops, I mean Nagybanya--and creating a mining accident. Alternative history is so much fun. 


Did you know that cyanide is regularly used in gold mining? Wouldn't it be great if I could work that into my mining accident? But it's not dramatic enough. All the cyanide spills I can find were ecological disasters, not instant ones. Water poisoning and destruction of ecosystems, not miner deaths. Sorry to sound so callous. But I gotta have the threat of instant death hanging over my characters. Writers are evil people. 


So, it's either an explosion or a roof collapse. Much more dramatic.