The Shewushan lateritic gold deposit is the largest gold deposit in Southeastern of Hubei Province. Since the discovery of the deposit, about this kind of deposit research, it has gained a lot of achievements, but there are still many disputes about the genesis of deposit and metallogenic process. Based on a lot of laboratory data analysis and field investigation, writers find out the focus of controversy in the study of mineral deposits and their respective basis, introduces the origin and exploration of the similar foreign deposits associated with Shewushan and the gold prospecting research progress. In order to provide new ideas for the future research and ore prospecting work, and that the prospect is likely to reach super large deposit.