For the purpose of rational exploitation of mineral resources and effective monitor of ecological environment in mining areas, the authors experiments about land-use classification of the high spatial resolution airborne image from a mining area in Hengxian County of Guangxi using element-oriented method. Based on the multi-scale image elements, the land-use classification knowledge base of the study area was established through analyzing spectral, spatial and class-relation features in this area. The experiments show that the element-oriented method can obtain high precision land-use classification for taking full advantage of various features of the mining area from the high spatial resolution image.