文章简要回顾了百年来矿床学取得的重要进展，包括：①矿床成因分类的建立；②层控矿床研究；③板块构造与区域成矿；④矿床模型研究；⑤区域成矿学研究；⑥超大型矿床研究；⑦海洋现代热液成矿作用的发现；⑧成矿年代研究等。针对21世纪人类社会可持续发展的需要，矿床学研究出现了两个新趋势：①全球化；②矿业开发与环境保护一体化。面临着三个主要研究领域：①成矿理论的推陈出新；②研究开发新型矿产资源，建立广义的矿产资源地质学；③为加强矿山环保所做的矿床学基础研究。最后作者还提出发展成矿学研究的若干建议。

Some major achievements on mineral deposit geology in the past 100 years are briefly reviewed in the paper. Such achievements include: ①classification of mineral deposits by their genesis;②booming of study on strata-bound deposits and multigenesis theory of mineral deposit;③plate tectonics and metallogeny; ④mineral deposit model; ⑤study on regional metallogeny; ⑥study on super-large mineral deposits;⑦discovery of modern hydrothermal ore-forming processes in oceans and ⑧study on metallogenic age etc. In order to meet the demands of sustainable development of human society in the 21st century, the mineral deposit geology shows two new trends: ①globalization and ②harmony of ore exploitation and environmental protection. Nowadays mineral deposit geology are facing three main research fields: ①the research and formulation of new ore-forming theories;②the study and discovery of new types of mineral resources and the formation of general mineral resource geology and ③ performance of basic research on mineral deposit to satisfy the need for environmental protection. At final, the author presents some suggestions for the development of metallogenic research, include the unity of metallogeny research and mineral exploration, master the scientific thinking method and strengthen the international exchange and cooperation for metallogenic research.