#aurar
- Ampelum — The ancient Roman name of the town of Zlatna in Alba County, located in the Apuseni Mountains. During the period of Roman Dacia, Ampelum functioned as a highly important administrative, economic, and mining center, serving as the headquarters of the procurator aurariarum, who coordinated the extraction of precious metals throughout the province.
- Anastylosis — An archaeological method and scientific technique for restoring a partially collapsed or ruined historical monument, consisting of reassembling and returning to their original positions the authentic architectural fragments found on-site (columns, capitals, friezes). This precision intervention is carried out under strict international regulations, allowing the use of modern materials only minimally and visibly, strictly to ensure the structural stability of the complex.
- Goldsmith — An archaic and regional term designating a folk craftsman specialized in making, decorating, or selling traditional necklaces, adornments, and ornaments made of gold coins (auri). Also, in certain ancient contexts, the word described a person in charge of managing or weighing precious metals in artisan workshops.
- Archival technology — A technical and applied branch of archival science dealing with the study, development, and implementation of practical methods for the physical preservation, restoration, and protection of archival documents. It includes repository microclimate management (temperature, humidity, and light control), biological pest control techniques, industrial bookbinding processes, as well as the use of modern digitization and microfilming technologies to salvage fragile mediums.
- Plowing initiation — The act of beginning to plow and its result; the initial operation of tilling or the opening of the agricultural season by drawing the first furrows in the soil. It is a rare deverbal noun, utilized exclusively in ethnographic studies or archaic dialectal glossaries.
- Gold-washer — A regional and popular variant of the term 'aurariță', denoting a woman engaged in washing alluvial sands to extract gold or the wife of a goldsmith. In the historical auriferous basins of Transylvania, it reflected a socio-economic reality where the entire family participated in the meticulous sifting of riverbeds.
- Backup — A technological and structural process through which a safety copy of data, files, or computer systems is created, with the purpose of restoring them in the event of loss, damage, or a cyberattack. The term designates both the preventive data duplication action and the physical or virtual storage medium (such as cloud storage servers) where the resulting copy is saved.
- Traditional artisan — A historical mining laborer occupied with extracting or washing precious ores; a miner or gold washer. Ethnographically, it denotes a member of a traditional community of woodcrafters (also known as rudari or lingurari) historically specializing in carving wooden utensils or panning for river gold.
- 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.
- Gold-washing trough — A rare regional or archaic term used to describe a woman or a tool involved in traditional washing, cleaning, or ritual water treatment processes. In certain ethno-linguistic contexts related to old mining, it can refer to the rudimentary installation or trough used for washing gold ore to separate precious metal.
- Gold-washing apparatus — An archaic and regional term rarely used to describe an object, place, or person related to washing, cleaning, or water processing. In old mining operations, it was used as an adjective for tools or areas designated for washing and separating gold ore, and as a noun for the worker handling this surface operation.