Rășinari has declared that no rock will leave its territory unchecked, after 98.43 per cent of voters rejected any mining activity within the commune's boundaries. The village council has since appointed a standing commission of twelve shepherds to walk the perimeter of the Valea Dobra slope each morning and confirm that nothing magnesite-bearing is attempting to escape.
The commission's first act was to fit every pedestrian bridge over the local stream with a wooden turnstile, through which visitors must pass with their pockets emptied of pebbles. Shopkeepers in the central square have been instructed to weigh any stone sold as garden decoration and record the weight in a ledger kept beside the cash register. A local school has added a daily lesson on the magnesite question, in which children recite the vote tally before their multiplication tables.
Mineral Proiect Invest S.A., whose planned 25 million euro quarry would occupy about seven hectares over twenty years, has so far declined to comment on the stone checks. Meanwhile the village has begun building a memorial cairn in the square, made entirely of local limestone that has been certified by the commission as unmined and therefore permitted to stand.