With the increasing mechanization of mining production, intelligent equipment, automatic control and remote control had become the trend of coal industry. At present, Huainan coal mine was equipped with information technology for hardware and software platforms. However, it was difficult to meet needs of restructuring and development of enterprises. Prospect of applying big data and cloud computing in safe and efficient mining of Huainan coal mine was analyzed in this paper. At the same time, intelligent mines were expected to be the inevitable choice to solve mine safety and enhance benefits.