Abstract: To address the issues of insufficient protection, inefficient development, and resource waste of coal-associated strategic minerals in China, and to explore a scientific and efficient comprehensive development and utilization path, this paper conducts research through the analysis of key path exploration, key path recommendation strategies, and multi-path system mechanisms, forming a relatively systematic solution. The results show that policy coordination breaks the multi-headed management deadlock, technological leadership breaks through the exploration and mining bottlenecks, industrial cultivation enhances resource added value, and green development secures the ecological bottom line. The four paths form an organic whole of "institutional guarantee - technological support - value transformation - ecological bottom line". Through scientific and specific implementation strategies, it can achieve multi-dimensional improvements in resource development efficiency, economic value, ecological protection, and strategic security. The study suggests that the comprehensive development and utilization of coal-associated strategic minerals require the deep coupling and collaborative efforts of policies, technologies, industries, and ecology, breaking institutional barriers, overcoming technological difficulties, extending industrial chains, and adhering to ecological bottom lines, promoting the transformation from single mineral development to the coordinated utilization of all minerals, and providing support for the safe supply of national strategic minerals and the high-quality development of energy resources.