Аннотация:The article shows the significance of mining law as well as the legal regulation of the mining industry as the basis for the development of social and production basis of the Russian Federation. The paper considers researches carried out by leading scholars in the field of Natural Resources and Environmental Law regarding the concepts of Mining Law. The author determines his approach to defining the place of Mining Law in the system of branches of law and to defining the concept of "Mining Law". He makes an attempt to reveal the semantics of Mining Law. The paper studies the content of mountainous legal relations.
