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Thus the sign for iron became Fe (from Latin ferrum ), for gold, Au ( aurum ), for silver, Ag ( argentum ), for copper Cu (cuprum) , for lead, Pb ( plumbum —until steel replaced lead pipe for waterworks, plumbers were, and had been since Roman times, workers in lead).
The symbol, Au , comes from Latin aurum gold, which, in turn, comes from Indo-European * auso- gold, but possibly meaning to draw water, leading one to speculate that ancient gold was found by panning, as in placer mining.