Gold is a soft bright, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal with a slightly reddish yellow colour when available in mass. But when divided finely it becomes black, purple or ruby.Being one of the most malleable and ductile metals, 28g of gold can be beaten into 300 square feet of it.A major share of this soft metal is mined and is handed to us as gravels or quartz veins or pyrites deposits.