There is currently a bug in the version beta of Minecraft where your not able to smelt gold and another one is that fortune on a pickaxe doesn't work

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We're actually already tracking this issue in MCPE-67169 AND MCPE-68978, so I've resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.

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