Researches and development of environmental mineral materials (including natural mineral materials, modified mineral materials, synthetic mineral materials, and et al.) used to remedy soils polluted by heavy metals, organic pollutants and virus was reviewed. A range of environmental clean-up technologies has been developed, using environmental mineral materials to remedy contaminated soil, e.g. the use of clay to remedy polluted soil, and of iron and manganese oxides to deal with soils polluted with heavy metal and organic pollutant. In remediation of soils polluted with heavy metals, mineral apatite and metallic minerals containing elements with changeable valence are used as reductant or oxidant to react with pollutants. And further research and development of the materials based on cost/effeciency, mechanism, application and modification of mineral materials and relationship between soil nutrients and environmental mineral materials are suggested.