There is a third possible use for the stuff: half again denser than lead, soft, and totally inert, gold would be the absolute ideal metal for waterfowl shot. You could kill geese all day long with 2.75" shells, and %7 shot, or at most %6. But at today's prices, that would be around $2000 a shot.
But there is in fact hope. Plasma physicists are now fairly certain that all agglomeration of mass into solid form (99.999% of the material in the universe is in plasma form) in the universe is via the Z-pinch effect associated with Birklande currents, which is why we ever find any heavy metals near the planet's surface at all. That says it may shortly in fact become possibly to simply MAKE gold and other metals out of water, dirt, or whatever is to hand and the stuff might in fact become cheap enough to hunt geese with. You'd have to alloy it with something harder to make it withstand the acceleration without deforming of course or you'd never hit anything past 20 yards.
There is also as I noted the fact that we are in a deflationary spiral at present and that is not likely to change soon, while gold is normally thought of as a hedge against inflation. Caveat Emptor.