Environmental mineralogy is having an unprecedented development in the world. Following the increasing communications between scholars on environmental mineralogy, the number of papers on this subject is rising progressively. Besides, the cultivation of talents has been strengthened. And some colleges found graduate schools or research centers of environmental mineralogy. The Special Group of Environmental Mineralogy was set up in the Commission on Mineralogy, Geological Society of China in April 1999. The Commission on Environmental Mineralogy was set up in the Chinese Society for