Abstract:The mining with water resources protection in arid and semi-arid mining areas is not only an important national development strategy,but also one of the key study contents in the basic and applied sciences. Combining with the specific geological and mining conditions in Shendong coal mine,some researches on basic theory of mining with water resources protection and their application to arid and semi-arid mining areas are performed systematically,including the analysis of hydrogeological structure,the development law of water flowing fractured zone in overburden rock,the stability of the water-resisting key strata,the water-preserved mining method with the aquifer above the water-resisting strata,the advance dewatering,transferring and storage of the water for the aquifer above the non-water-resisting strata,etc.. According to the analysis of hydrogeological conditions,the shallow water-bearing region is classified into four types of hydrogeological structure;and the water-resisting strata area is classified into five water-bearing structures,so five kinds of regionalizations in water-preserved mining are put forward. According to the field measurement,the numerical simulation and the theoretical analysis,the crack evolution law of mining strata and the seepage passage development law are revealed;and then the instability(destabilization) condition of the water-resisting key strata is given. Considering the various geological and mining conditions,aiming at the aquifer above the water-resisting strata,some water-preserved mining methods are proposed,such as the water-preserved mining by controlling the structural stability of the water- resisting key strata,the water-preserved mining by controlling the close of the mining water-conduct crack,and the water-preserved mining by filling in partial support area. Aiming at the aquifer above the non-water-resisting strata,the storage method of transferring water from the aquifer to goaf by advanced dewatering is put forward,which has a good application effect in practice.