Abstract: Mine environment geological problems caused and aggravated by mine resource exploitation are becoming important factors affecting the normal mine production and human ecological environment safety. For realizing the green mining objective of carrying out resource exploitation and environmental protection simultaneously, it is necessary to reduce and alleviate negative influences of mine development on the mine geological environment to the maximum extent while rationally exploiting and utilizing mineral resources. According to the experience and understanding of the investigation and research of the mine geological environment in the last eight years, the paper briefly introduces the rising, development, research significance, methods present state and progress of mine environmental geology and proposes the main direction and content of the study of mine environmental geology in the future, with an aim of giving impetus to the work of mine geological environmental protection while promoting the research on mine environmental geology.