After all, it is gold , which never seems to lose its value. Good natural specimens though are more expensive than their actual weight value. Luster is metallic. Transparency is opaque. Also wires, dendritic and arborescent crystal clusters.
Cleavage is absent.
Fracture is jagged. Streak is golden yellow. Associated Minerals include quartz , nagyagite , calaverite , sylvanite , krennerite , pyrite and other sulfides . Best Field Indicators are color, density, hardness, sectility, malleability and ductility.