The results of remote monitoring of the state of disturbed lands during the development of deposits of nickel-containing ores from the Ufaleisk group are presented. An ecologically acceptable rate of formation of the plant ecosystem on waste dumps and in mined-out pits was recorded. Currently, more than 90% of disturbed lands are covered with resistant species of vegetation.
Based on the results of processing satellite images with the delineation of boundaries and grades of mining industrial landscapes, environmentally acceptable selfhealing factors for vegetation cover at the level of 0.791 are established in the territory of railway dumps. The lower values of such coefficients in the range 0.049–0.48 are characterized by self-healing of the vegetation cover on the surface of automobile dumps.
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