Gold Ore

Gold ore is commonly found beside stone blocks deep underground, usually in a vein of 2-9 blocks (sometimes up to 18 if two veins happen to spawn together, and as few as 1 if the block that was supposed to be gold ore is occupied by a generated structure). It only appears in the bottom 32 layers of the map. From levels 2-28, gold ore's occurrence underground is at 0.1437%. On average there are 7.5 gold ores per chunk. It can be mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe. Gold ore can be smelted in a furnace to create gold ingots.

Trivia

 * It could be placed in Classic since version 0.28, but is still usable if found thanks to the "Copy Block" tool.
 * In Classic it could be found at much higher elevations, sometimes even at the surface.
 * Gold is the only material that can be made into a pickaxe that is not capable of mining its own ore.
 * In Survival Test destroyed gold ore would drop gold blocks

Gold (Erz) Gold (Ore)/es Or (minerai) Aranyérc 금 원석 Goud (erts) Złoto (ruda) pt-br:Gold (Ore)/ptbr Золото (руда) 金矿石