Abstract: The carrying capacity of mine geo-environment is a new concept that is lately proposed in recent years，which mainly present its research results with evaluation methods.At present，there is no proven or mature procedure of the geo-environmental evaluation on carrying capacity，and the existing theories and methods are not integrated or unified.Therefore，it is necessary to make discussion on the basic and theoretical issues before conducting the mine geo-environmental evaluation on carrying capacity.Firstly，the concept，connotation，origin，development and evolution of the carrying capacity are analyzed，the mine geo-environmental system and its characteristics are analyzed.Then，the types of mine geo-environmental evaluation are summarized.Finally，the premises and assumptions of mine geo-environmental evaluation on carrying capacity are discussed in detail，besides that，the basic attributes of the mine geo-environmental evaluation on carrying capacity such as objects，scopes，properties，premises and purposes are also confirmed.The above analysis and discussion results can provide some useful ideas for the research work，and have the reference for mine geo-environmental protection and the planning of mineral resources exploitation in China.

Key words: Mine geo-environment, Carrying capacity evaluation, Evaluating attributes