Abstract: In recent years, a lot of mining rights holders have reported that it is difficult to apply for mining right certificates and the applying time is too long.Efficient administrative approval and registration of mining right is the basic guarantee for the healthy development of mining industry, and also the requirement of the government to continuously improve the level of public management.Among them, the application document is an important part of determining the efficiency of mining rights approval and registration.In order to further improve the efficiency of mining rights approval and registration, this paper studies the current situation of the setting of mining rights application documents, expounds the objectives of mining right management, analyzes the setting background of mining rights application documents, and puts forward the existing problems.Combined with the above analysis and problems, this paper puts forward some principles, such as exploration technical problems should be managed by mining enterprises, reduce replacing supervision with approval, optimize the cancellation, transfer registration management, etc.As well as some suggestions, such as the deletion of the application documents, such as the exploration implementation plan, the geological data collection certificate etc., the optimization of the development and utilization plan, the mine environmental protection plan, and the land reclamation plan.It will be beneficial to further improve the efficiency of mining rights approval and registration, and promote the continuous optimization and improvement of mining rights management.