Coal exploration and mining may lead to aggravated soil and water loss.Environmental geological disasters in a coal mining area are always complicated in type and scale and can cause serious damages and harms.By taking the Binxian-Changwu Mining Area as an example,the relationships between soil and water loss and environmental geological disasters are analyzed based on the analysis of degree and characteristics of soil and water loss in the mining area.Ueological disasters are generally responsible for soil and water loss and aggravate the degree of soil and water loss.Accordingly,four main types of soil and water loss,as well as its characteristics,are classified,which are landslip,collapse,mudslide and ground subsidence.From the analysis,the ideas and countermeasures are proposed for controlling geological disasters in the mining area,i.e.,using a set of reclamation techniques,reducing the number of sites with soil and water loss,strictly regulating the pilling-up of waste soil and residue by avoiding water flow rout and building blocking wall,and carefully digging side slope.