Abstract: This study aims to explore the differences and characteristics of the impacts of coal mining activities at different stages on various land use types in mining areas. Taking Yijin Huoluo Banner-a major coal-producing area in China-as the study area and multi-stage Landsat remote sensing images of nearly 30 years during 1990-2019 as the main data source, this study extracted land use distribution information using the random forest classification method on the Google Earth Engine platform. Based on this as well as coal mining statistical data, this paper analyzed the characteristics of land use changes at three stages of coal mining using the intensity analysis theory. The results are as follows. ① The intensity change theory can be used to comprehensively analyze the land use change from the aspects of intervals, categories, and transformation and to more systematically exhibit the characteristics of land use changes and the impacts of human activities in the study area. These are greatly significant for the in-depth understanding of the land use change process. ② Coal mining produces different impacts on different types of land, and it primarily affects the vegetation, water areas, and bare land. ③ Coal mining imposes different impacts on various types of land at different stages. It produces slight impacts on various types of land at the initial stage. It produces increasing impacts on various types of land at the high-speed development stage, during which it mainly affects vegetation, bare land, and water areas in and around the mining area. Then the impacts decrease at the steady development stage of coal mining. The results of this study can serve the implementation of precise protection plans for different types of land at different coal mining stages and provide a scientific basis for the protection of the ecological environment in the mining area.