Gold telluride minerals are the most notable natural gold compounds.

It occurs with other sulfide and telluride minerals in hydrothermal ore occurrences.

These telluride minerals were never located near Telluride, causing the town to be named for a mineral which never was mined there.

As the miners dig down, they may find that the deeper part of vein contains gold locked in sulfide or telluride minerals, which will require smelting.

Gold within the Golden Mile lode system is unusual in that it is present as telluride minerals within pyrite.

Stützite (AgTe) and empressite (AgTe) are related silver telluride minerals.

Sylvanite is associated with native gold, quartz, fluorite, rhodochrosite, pyrite, acanthite, nagyagite, calaverite, krennerite, and other rare telluride minerals.

There are a few dozen tellurate minerals and telluride minerals, and tellurium occurs in some minerals with gold, such as sylvanite and calaverite.

Although gold telluride minerals were never actually found in the mountains near Telluride, the area's mines were rich in zinc, lead, copper, silver, and ores which contained gold in other forms.

The town itself was founded in 1878 as "Columbia," but due to confusion with a California town of the same name, was renamed Telluride in 1887, for the gold telluride minerals found in other parts of Colorado.

Creeks draining the pluton were among the many productive gold placers in the heart of the Fairbanks district, since the early 1900s; and bedrock occurrences of gold or bismuth/telluride minerals were found near the pluton by early miners.