The average air γ-ray dose rates measured from the field, road, bone coal, bone coal cinder and bone coal cinder bricks in the three bone coal mines in west Zhejiang Province, are 3.8×10², 4.1x10², 7.1x10², 4.0×10² and 7.1×10² nGy/h, respectively. The mean contents of ²³⁸U, ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K in the bone coal of the three bone coal mines are 2.0×10³, 2.1×10³, 3.9×10¹ and 6.1×10² Bq/kg, respectively, in the bone coal cinder(BCC) are 1.6×10³, 1.6×10³, 2.3×10¹ and 4.5×10² Bq/kg, respectively, and in the bone coal cinder brick(BCCB) are 1.2×10³, 1.2x10³, 2.4x10¹ and 4.0×10² Bq/kg, respectively, and those in the reference soil are 3.4×10², 1.0×10², 4.9×10¹ and 4.9×10² Bq/kg, respectively. The annual mean of effective dose equivalent for public living in house buildings made with BCCB near the three mines is 6.8 mSv.