0.001 Gold is equal to 5 cents. I think that it is more than fair minimal fee for storing gold.
So if one has 1$ worth of GOLD he cannot do much with it and will be considered donation?
Even exchanges like binance has minimum trade size set to 0.001 BTC (~7$).
And still some exchanges work with much lower limits. Getting only the examples that suit you don't prove anything.
If both of those information are in TOS than I don't see more fair solution.
Can you please point this in TOS? I didn't find it.
PS. I was trying to help GOLD team to improve, because if I've seen this, others will see it too. I don't want to argue unnecessarily, but it seems that you do. My point is that math is math and should work the same for big or small values. The exceptions should be written down and easy to be found.