In order to adapt to the developmental trend of modern teaching methods and to overcome the shortcomings of traditional teaching in mining, MCAI Courseware was developed for mining of metallic deposits and good results was achieved. A case study on sublevel caving method shows how the 3D Studio Max and the Photoshop 6.0 are used to make three dimensional animations simulating the technological process of mining, and also shows the compiling procedures of MCAI system using Visual Basic 6.0.