Abstract: Discharge and piling amount of mine solid waste are great in China, not only have occupied a large number of land resources and polluted environment seriously, but also led to resources waste for tailings, waste rock and coal gangue and so on content a large number of available metal and nonmetal mineral resources. If that could be recovered and reused, it would increase economic benefits and improve mining environment effectively, reduce secondary pollution, and the ecological environment benefit would be remarkable. Resources survey and the harm of mine solid waste in China were summarized, resources utilization and harmless treatment and final disposal status of mine solid waste were summarized, problems existed in resources utilization of solid waste were analyzed and corresponding countermeasures were proposed.

Key words: Mine solid waste, Resources utilization, Harmless treatment, Final disposal