The fact that it is beautiful, shiny, untarnished and rare
Gold!
Gold is one of the least abundant metals found on earth. The scarcity element of gold is what makes it a valuable mineral.
Gold
Rhodium and platinum are both more valuable than gold.
Water is a blue element as valuable as gold.
Gold is an element, and an element can't be broken down into anything but atom's; then hadron; then quark, but in any terms nothing makes gold.
Gold is more valuable than silver. durr.
it is valuable because gold is easy to spot and it is so shiney that it makes people risk their lives just to get it
it is valuable because gold is easy to spot and it is so shiney that it makes people risk their lives just to get it
It's the color of the element that makes it gold.
There's nothing special about it. Gold is more or less nonreactive, but that's not a special property. What makes it valuable is its rarity, not its nonreactivity. Mercury is similarly nonreactive, but not nearly as valuable.
It's scarcity is the only thing that makes it valuable.