This guide presents the course "Gold and Platinum," taught in 1926-1928 to students of the geological exploration faculty of the Moscow Mining Academy, with the exception of the department for the extraction and processing of these metals. Instead, the exploration part for gold and platinum was significantly strengthened. This department in this manual is much broader than in the special course "Exploration," issued in 1930 and 1931. In the last year, exploration for gold and platinum is given very little space for fear that the course itself will eventually turn into an exploration course for these metals, to the detriment of other minerals. Many years of personal experience, significantly supplemented by literary data, made it possible in this guide to concentrate all the material on gold and platinum that has been accumulated for more than a hundred years.