Brunette Girl Wearing Golden Underwear

Because of its historically high value, much of the gold mined throughout history is still in circulation in one form or another.
Occurrence
Gold's atomic number of 79 makes it one of the higher atomic number elements which occur naturally. Like all elements with atomic numbers larger than iron, gold is thought to have been formed from a supernova nucleosynthesis process. Their explosions scattered metal-containing dusts (including heavy elements like gold) into the region of space in which they later condensed into our solar system and the Earth.