#baiesag

• Mining trade — A historical and archaic term designating the activity, trade, or status of a 'băeș' (a miner, gold washer, or laborer in the mining exploatations of the Romanian Middle Ages); the tax or fiscal obligation paid by miners to the ruler. In an extended sense, the word referred to the community or guilds of miners organized within Transylvania or the Romanian Principalities.
• Traditional mining trade — The occupation, craft, or specific labor of traditional miners who extracted gold, silver, or salt in mountainous regions; historical mining. In an extended sense, the term designates the social condition or the entirety of norms and traditions governing old mining communities.