Abstract: Aiming at the problem of geological environmental protection of mining area, via reading and analyzing a large number of related literatures and combining with practices, the research progress of mining rules and regulations, environmental assessment, monitoring technology, disaster prevention and control and ecological restoration technology for mining area at home and abroad are reviewed. Comparative analysis shows that the protection of mine geological environment in foreign countries focuses on the restoration of soil and water quality in micro level, the vast majority of mine geological protection in China remains at the level of engineering treatment, and the legal guarantee, mine restoration cash margin level and green reclamation technology are the weak links in China. The paper points out that the further research of geological environment protection in mining area should pay more attention to mine geological environment protection policy, the mechanism of mine disaster, mine disaster prevention and ecological restoration technology, mine geological environment monitoring and early emergency warning method, system and equipment. And the main ideas of various research directions are also explained. The research results have positive significance to promoting the theoretical research of mine geological environment disaster reduction and the practice of prevention and control project.