Based on a description of characteristics of gold anomaly, geological background and geochemical landscape in the gold anomaly area as well as methods for verifying Shangba weak and gentle gold anomaly, the authors have reached the conclusion that such micro-landscapes as thick Quaternary sediments and well-developed surface runoff seem to be the primary causes for regional weak and gentle gold geochemical anomalies in stream sediments. The effective way to realize a breakthrough in the exploration of gold deposits is to follow the routine working procedure. The effective methods lie in increasing sampling density of stream sediments in geochemical semi-detailed survey, increasing the sampling depth of soil to over 50 cm in geochemical detailed survey, and also increasing the digging depth of exploratory trenches.