It is popular to talk about a modern highly mechanized mine in the form of a kind of journey along the shaft, workings, faces, sections of basic and auxiliary services. The operation of the dispatching mine and computers controlling coal mining processes, tunneling combines and complexes, mine power supply systems are described, and the safety of their use is shown. It is told about the complexity of mining labor, its dignity and greatness. For high school students. It will be useful for students of mining technical schools.