Abstract: Ultimate objective of ecological rehabilitation is to fasten the natural successional processes to enhance the biological productivity, soil fertility and regulation of biotic control over nutrient fluxes within reclaiming ecosystem. The present study is focuses on the comparative assessment of variation in physico-chemical properties in seven different age series in manganese mines overburden spoil in chronosequence from fresh mine spoil to forest soil (MB0,MB2,MB4,MB6,MB8,MB10, FS) in Kanther Manganese mines, koira, Sundargadh, Odisha, India. The soil textural analysis showed the increasing trend in clay and silt percentage while decrement was shown in sand percentage from MBO to FS. Decrement in bulk density with increase clay percentage shown the negative co-relation (r = -0.97.8; p

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2022.9321