It's much easier to dissolve Iron in dilute H2SO4,as long as you keep it away from contact with Oxygen, otherwise it will Oxidize to Ferric and won't work as a reducing agent.
Actually, Ferrous Chloride might precipitate Gold. Never tried it, but it might work.
According to this, it does:
"Reducers precipitate gold from different solutions in divergent forms. Ferrous chloride and sulphate, arsenious acid, antimonious acid, and stannous chloride throw it down as a brown powder of varying degrees of subdivision, the precipitate with ferrous chloride being more finely divided when the gold solution is poured into the iron solution than that produced by the reverse method. The more dilute the gold solution, the finer is the subdivision of the precipitate. From concentrated solutions the metal often separates in lustrous laminae. A soft, yellow gold sponge is produced by addition of a small proportion of oxalic acid and a large proportion of potassium carbonate to a concentrated solution, the resulting mixture being then boiled with more oxalic acid."
http://gold.atomistry.com/extraction.html