Abstract: Mineral exploitation is a complex industrial process, how to evaluate mineral exploitation and utilization level is a complex problem, there is no generous definition now, this article put up mining recovery, mineral processing recovery, total recovery of associated and coexisting minerals, utilization rate of tailings, utilization rate of waste-rock, total labor productivity, energy consumption of exploitation and utilization, percent of technical personnel, and R & D intensity indexes based resource utilization, cyclic utilization, and intensity of production and management, we hope provide base reference for evaluate mineral exploitation and utilization level.