The site of the Mount Washington mine on Vancouver Island.
A shot of a rock cut on the Mount Washington mine access road showing the signature white streaks where copper sulphides, or salts, have precipitated from rock containing copper ore.
The remnants of the abandoned copper mill at the Mount Washington mine.
Lots of people visit Mt Washington every year, and can take a road with snowmobiles up to the mine. They will be greeted by this sign which is often ignored. What this sign doesn’t say is that the snowmobiles risk cutting and making holes in the mem
Twelve kilometres of bituminous membrane were rolled out to seal mining waste at the Mount Washington mine. Runoff has washed away sections of the gravel cover, leading him to worry the geomembrane underneath could become exposed to damaging UV radi
Father Charles Brandt, longtime environmental advocate involved in the restoration of Tsolum River. Brandt is photographed in his book binding studio where a poster of the Mount Washington mine hangs on his wall. In the 1980s Brandt helped raise a
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Hiem helped replant the banks of the Tsolum River with willow as part of the Tsolum River Restoration Society’s work.
A view from the Mount Washington copper mine. (Copy)
Wayne White at the copper mine site
A v-shaped water gauge on Pyrrhotite Creek headwaters, just below the site of the Mount Washington mine. The majority of water testing done on Pyrrotite Creek is conducted here.
In 2009 waste rock at the Mount Washington mine was covered with geomembrane and buried under 128,000 tonnes of gravel. Drainage ditches built into the cap divert clean water away from the capped waste.
A small amount of water from an under pipe that drains the area beneath the 12 kilometres of geomembrane
Wayne White walking over the Mt Washington copper mine site which closed in 1967 and was left to pollute the Tsolum River on Vancouver Island.
Caroline Hiem helped replant the banks of the Tsolum River with willow as part of the Tsolum River Restoration Society’s work.
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