Geophysical exploration of coal came into the world early in the 1930's. Only in the 1970's, it had broken through its long jogging situation and started developing. The fall in oil price has given it a series of hard hits in the 1980's. At the same time, the geophysical exploration of coal in China has been developing rapidly.During this period, the equipment have renewed and technology developed, for instance, high sensitivity gravity and magnetic survey, more precision of aeromagnetic data,advanced techn...