In this paper the history of the seismic prospecting for coal in Shandong in the past thirty years is reviewed, and the geological tasks undertaken by coal seismic prospecting in the investigation of the structures and lithological characters of the coalfields are summarized. A comprehensive program followed by drilling and combined with the logging seismic prospecting has been demonstrated by examples to be an efficient and economical approach in the coal prospecting for improving accuracy, reducing the am...