Mine hoisting KOEPPE system or friction hoist winch work with traction pulley, the pulley rim grooves are lined. Lining has to provide a higher friction coefficient between the rope and the traction pulley. The constructors of mine hoisting machines require from the manufacturers a guaranteed appropriate and stabile value of a friction coefficient at different pressures between a rope and a friction lining under different external conditions (drought, moisture, icing, etc.). The paper presents processed measurements performed on the six samples of the friction lining (G1-G6) made of rubber and the sample of the standard used friction lining (K25). The samples (G1-G6) differ in the chemical composition of the rubber. Due to the confidentiality of the material composition of the friction linings the hardness of the lining material as a discriminator was chosen. The measured values of the friction coefficient of the rubber friction lining samples were compared with the values of the friction coefficient of the friction lining (K25) usually mounted on friction lining pulley.