The demand for coal resources is increasing with economic development in China. But, the rich mineral resources along with the intensive mining activities, which have led to a lot of ecological and environmental problems, such as environmental pollution, ecological destruction and geological disasters. Eco鄄risk assessment is an important tool for effective ecological environment management with evaluations of the likelihood and degree of harm.Thus, this paper applied landscape eco鄄risk assessment methods to estimate the level of the opencast mine area eco鄄 risk. But also the ESDA ( Exploratory spatial data analysis ) methods were used to analyze the spatial association characteristic of landscape eco鄄risk in mining area. It turned out that those high鄄risk areas is the core of the spatial distribution of Landscape eco鄄risk and from high鄄risk to low鄄risk present ring features. In addition, high鄄risk is mainly distributed in the mining industry and city life areas, sources of which are the mining, coal gangue tie up land and city construction activities. Medium鄄risk are mainly distributed in nature, half natural functional areas, the main sources of which are the city life and the agricultural production activities. Low鄄risk areas are covered by sparse vegetation, such as shrub and grassland. However, in research areas, vegetation degradation, soil and water loss leads to the regional ecological base quality was poor. So the ecosystems and environmental factors are fragile here. Moreover, the frequent production
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