Abstract: The old roadway is a key factor that perplexes the safe production of coal mine in China. This paper carried out forward modeling of roadways, analyzed the reflection and sensitable attributive characteristics of roadway on 2D seismic data profiles. With the 3D seismic exploration in an area of Inner Mongolia as an example and under preconditions of collection of high-quality original data, the actual 3D seismic data were processed by protection processing. Average amplitude, average seismic energy and RMS amplitude attributes were extracted based on conventional interpretation to locate roadway. The interpretation result of roadway location was accurate when compared with coal mining engineering map.