Abstract: The remote sensing images which were obtained respectively in 2008 and 2014 were used in a certain area of Shanxi Province. By using ArcGIS softwere,human and computer interaction interpretation method was used to delineate the mining land and non-mining land respectively. The monitoring results show that, from 2008 to 2014,the proportion of mining land in the study area increased by about 35%,and the mining lands grew rapidly. The change of mining manner was the main reason for the increase of mining land. The increase of mining land was mainly attributed to the occupation of the forest land and cultivated land.