The article discusses the localization conditions of the Shakardara gold-sulfide-quartz deposit. It is noted that ore bodies of two morphological types are distinguished at the deposit: vein zones of hydrothermally altered andesitic porphyrites and their tuffs (secondary quartzites) and a band of gold-bearing metasomatites. The vein zones are represented by intensely silicified and kaolinized rocks with separate quartz veins and veinlets bearing pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization. Gold mineralization is most common in quartz-rich metasomatites.