Based on the analysis of the regional geological and hydrogeologic conditions of a coal mine in Xishan Coalfield, Shanxi Province in China, the groundwater aquifer system is generalized as a three layers structure in vertical direction and a three-dimensional unsteady flow model in confined aquifer is established. The regime of karst groundwater levels under the coal mining conditions for both Carboniferous and Ordovician limestone aquifers are predicted by using Visual Modflow. The results show that the groundwater levels of the two aquifers are all in decline as a result of coal mining. After 2373 days of mining, the maximum drawdown is 137m in Carboniferous limestone aquifer with the unwatering area in southeast, while the water level in Ordovician limestone aquifer dropped by 8.1m. The dropped rates of groundwater levels in the two aquifers trend to decrease with the coal mining. The results play an important role in the reasonable protection of water resources.
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