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Mining is a strongly impacting anthropogenic activity, affecting to a greater or lesser extent the natural components. Thus, it is consensual that should be established a common practice that aims at the recovery of degraded mine sites. Otherwise, environmental balances can be irreversibly destroyed, with serious negative consequences for surrounding ecosystems, including humans. Therefore, the environmental reclamation of a mine site can be defined as the general process of repairing disturbed, damaged, degraded,...