Abstract: Due to the continuous urbanization, natural ecosystems are under enormous pressure.Hence, there is an intensifying contradiction between economic development and ecological protection.The ecological security patterns(ESPs) construction directly affects the balance between social development and ecological conservation, and thus it has become the key to solve ecological problems and improve human well-being.By researching progresses on the ecological security pattern and its practical application, we find that overall planning of mineral resources based on ESPs is feasible.Then the main deficiencies are indicated and summarized between overall planning of mineral resources based on ESPs and not.Furthermore, a research framework of regional ESPs overall planning of mineral resources is proposed with the concept that “ecology goes first” “sustainable development” “systematic” etc.According to this framework, overall planning of mineral resources contains the main content as follows:regional ecological security analysis, regional ESPs construction, land use zoning and optimizing the layout of mineral resources development and utilization, ecological rehabilitation planning in mining areas.The results show that most of researches take multi-disciplinary approaches, which makes geographic information system(GIS), spatial econometric analysis and space statistical analysis, based on diagnostic index of geography.Finally, we put forward four main directions for future research.