“…The scope of the school embraces two trends: the analysis of open pit mining data of metallic (nonmetallic) and coal deposits and the long-term monitoring of initiation and evolution of vegetative ecosystems in the areas of depleted and operating open pit mines and overburden dumps. Environmental professionals in mining are always faced with the same problems and solutions presented on a selective basis in [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”