Some inspired ideas and results about mining area sustainable development were obtained . in view of the fact that general statistics can not evaluate the sustainable development of a mining area very well, we put forward a multi-hierarchy index system, which involve economy, society, resource, environment and intelligence . the index system is better then the statistics in overall and deep meaning 鉴于传统的统计指标体系评价可持续发展度量的局限性,本文探讨性地提出了一个多层次矿区可持续开发评价指标体系,它反映了在构建矿区可持续开发评价指标体系时,从宏观角度应当考虑的内容,建立指标体系时,从经济、社会、资源、环境与智力支持五个大的方面考虑,具有较强的全面性。