Abstract: The minerals have been used from the earlier times by their resource properties. Nowadays the minerals are also intensively used by their environmental properties. The environmental mineralogy is a branch of scie nce dealing with interaction between the natural minerals and the spheres of the earth surface, as well as with reflection of global changes, prevention of ecol ogical destruction, remediation of environmental pollution, and interaction of n ano-minerals with bacteria (biomineralogy) and so on. Some details in above-me nt ioned fields are described to show that mineralogists are facing great responsib ilities in promoting both economic and social progress.