Gold Show clues again Gold is used to make components for the electronics industry. It's an excellent conductor of electricity. In other words, it's easily shaped - into rings and necklaces, for example.
Gold is also ductile, which means it can be easily drawn out into a wire.
Today gold ore is mined from solid rocks but it can also extracted from old river deposits. Gold has been used as a store of money for centuries. It is rare and therefore valuable and it doesn't react with water or with air . The atom number for gold is 79 . There is enough refined gold in the world to fill a small house, however, we can only guess at how much unrefined gold is still under the ground.