Material mechanics is an important professional basic course for mining engineering. Collecting, collating and teaching related cases of mining engineering can effectively improve the teaching effect. Driven by science and technology, mining engineering in China has achieved vigorous development, including many achievements and failure cases. If these cases are selected as teaching cases, they can make the course lively. Based on the curriculum of material mechanics, several representative cases related to mining engineering are listed, including the axial tensioning of non-full-length anchors, axial compression of the mining pillar, shearing and extrusion of anchor trays, shearing of the horizontal roadway crossing normal fault, twist of the drill pipe of mining rigs, hypotheses of the fixed beam and cantilever beam for the roof, strength theory of rocks under uniaxial or triaxial compression, combined deformation of the transmission shaft of the roadheader, the instability of the compressive single hydraulic prop, and the fall accidents of the shaft cage. They correspond to each chapter in the course of material mechanics, and can provide case reference for the classroom teaching of instructors.