With the era of high oil prices in world oil market, the high cost of oil shale production has become economical. Oil shale has become a very important alternative energy source. Due to many constraints, the cost of conventional mining methods for oil shale are higher. Based on the burial conditions as well as physical and mechanical properties of oil shale, at the same time, analyzed the unconventional mining methods and related tests for oil shale mining at home and abroad, two mining models are proposed, which are in situ mining and bore-hole hydraulic minting technology.