The interactions between groundwater and its environment was investigated in prairie mining area in this study, through the groundwater system evolutions in mining area before and after the mining actions (from 1973 to 2016) of Yimin coal mine. The results showed that (1) the mining activities of the open-pit coal changed the original reduction environment into the oxidizing environment in the mining area. The pyrite and sulfur-bearing coal in the stratum oxidized, produced acid and triggered a series of subsequent reactions, resulting in the decrease in the pH value of the groundwater in the mining area. The concentration of SO, Fe, Fe, Ca and Mg and the total hardness increased. The regional hydrochemical type evolved from HCO-Na·Ca·Mg type before mining to the type of HCO·SO-Na·Ca·Mg after mining. (2) Coal mining strongly draining underground water accelerated the regional groundwater circulation, and then made the groundwater desalination. The concentrations of TDS, COD and Na+K in the mining area all showed a decreasing trend. (3) The coal mining activities made the calcite and dolomite in saturated state under the natural condition of underground water to be unsaturated again. The hydro-geochemical action evolves from double control (water-rock interaction and evaporation-concentration) to water-rock interaction control.
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