Abstract: The paper studies the prospects for discovering new minerals in the older mines,and the gcologwal basis for,and the feasibility of,discovering new minerals as a substitute for the present minerals in the mines which face a resource crisis.In this paper the authors lay particular emphasis on detail of the expansion of resource,the potential to exploit the present minerals and to prospect new minerals,and the protection of the current mineral resources and of the mines.Bearing these points in mind,They discuss the main approaches to the sustainable development of the mining cities,and to rcsolving the resource crisis faced by the mines,and also put forward a few concrete solutions and sugBest ions.