One of the major gold mining regions in Romania is part of the gold rectangle in the Apuseni Mountains and lies around the town of Brad. It is here that the ”Ruda 12 Apostoli” Mining Association of cuxas was established at the end of the XVIIIth century. This association was to become the...

The Jiu Valley, or Petrosani coal basin, is an important economic region of Romania, situated at the springs of the Jiu River, between the Eastern Carpathians. It is a geographical area that emerges and develops from a social, economic and cultural point of view after mid-nineteenth century, as...

The paper approaches certain aspects regarding the involvement of the banking and industrial capital in the development and modernization of gold mining during the existence of „Mica” Company (1920-1948). The paper presents the political and economic factors contributing to the positive...

The author proposes a succinct presentation of the relation between the State, the Romanian National Bank respectively, and the producers of precious metals, that evolves within the framework of an essential economic component, namely the selling/purchase price of precious metals over an...

The paper is an attempt to point out the role of a series of Romanian financial and credit institutions in the transfer of certain industrial companies, and in our case of mining companies from the property of foreign capital into property of the Romanian capital.

After the First World War the Romanian society, its industry with the extractive industry in particular, enters a new and prolific stage of development. Within this context, the Romanian mining societies, among which „Mica” company are being established, with the declared purpose of...

In our study we're trying to present one of the many social projects that "Mica" Mining Company has achieved within the gold mining complex from Brad, located in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania. Under the motto “Be not only hardworking but also preservers because everyone can earn money,...

Situated in the Southern Carpathians of Romania, Vâlcan Gorge was, from the Antiquity to the end of the XIX-th century, the main connection between southern Transylvania/Haţeg County and northern Oltenia/Gorj area. Under the circumstances, the area situated at the source of the Jiu Rivers,...