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Image: Acid Mine Drainage in drainage ditch, Equity Silver mine

Acid Mine Drainage issues are expected from the proposed bc Metals mine in the Iskut headwaters. The company proposes to collect and treat the AMD. This picture shows AMD in a drainage ditch at the Silver Equity Mine near Houston BC. AMD is predicted by scientists to exist at Silver Equity, for the next 250,000 years and will need to be collected and treated by future generations.