The invention discloses an ecological restoration method for a coal mine waste rock mountain. The method comprises the following steps of (1) reducing the slope surface of the waste rock mountain, reducing the slope to 20-30 degrees, stabilizing the slope surface, and setting a drainage system; 2) laying loess on the surface of the spontaneous combustion waste rock mountain, and compacting to isolate an air approach, so that the internal air of pontaneous combustion waste rocks is exhausted and extinguished; (3) conducting seed-spraying on the coal mine waste rock mountain slope by using a loam-like substrate spraying method, specifically, laying a metal mesh on the surface of the compacted loess, and fixing with a bolt, spraying on the subsoil of the loam-like substrate, and spraying on the surface of the loam-like substrate; (4) conducting curing management of the slope, covering a non-woven fabric, reinforcing, watering, fertilizing, conducting pest control, replanting and conducting post-monitoring. The ecological restoration method for the coal mine waste rock mountain adopts loess cover, isolates air to prevent the spontaneous combustion of the waste rocks, and adopts a loam-like soil spraying technology to conduct plant seeding to achieve ecological restoration.