The former Britannia Mine has over 100 years of social and mining history, and a Museum that has been educating, informing and entertaining tens of thousands of students for over 35 years. New for 2011-2012, we have remodeled our education programs to allow you to focus on the grade and curriculum theme you want, and achieve learning objectives. Our exciting, new, comprehensive field trip programs explore MINERAL FORMATION AND EXTRACTION, ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND SOCIAL HISTORY in our immersive, authentic, historic and fun setting. The Britannia Mine Museum invites you and your students to experience an educational tour unlike any other. It's not just a train ride underground and it's not just about mining. The underground and site tours offer first-hand the role and processes of natural resources and mineral extraction. We additionally have an engaging, authentic story to tell about one of BC's early communities, relating the present to the past for your students, through the exploration of what it was like to live and work here. The EPCOR Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant opened in 2005 to treat the mine's acid-rock drainage problem. A field trip to the Discovery Centre there lets the students understand the environmental issue and then explore the solution. Explore the Britannia environmental legacy and reclamation story, learn about the history that caused the mine's acid-rock drainage problem, and get hands-on with real science. Fascinating, interactive sessions mimic the science behind the actual treatment process. CHOICE OF 12 PROGRAMS: The Mine and The Mill; The Social Side of Britannia; Live, Work, Play; Shift Start; Mining: Is It Worth It?; Born of the Earth: Britannia's Treasure; Born of the Earth: What Good Are Minerals To Me?; Born of the Earth: Mining and Society*; Wee Ones: All Aboard and My Dad's a Miner; EPCOR Discovery Centre; The Mine and The Mill and EPCOR Discovery Centre*; Environmental Legacies: Acid Rock Drainage*.