Potassium silicate solutions obtained were used as a source for MCM41. The preparation of MCM41 was affected by the gelation pH. A pH of 7 produced the purest MCM41 with an external surface area of 98,000 m . The MCM41 could be used as an adsorbent for heavy metals in AMD. A 4% m/v solid loading of MCM41 could remove 95.5, 97.3 and 99.6% of Ni, Cu and Fe respectively. The adsorption process was found to fit the Langmuir isotherm and pseudo second order kinetics. The Gibbs free energy of adsorption for all metals was below -20 kJ/mol for all metals. The enthalpy for Fe, Cu and Ni removal were 19.97, 21.40 and 16.44 kJ/mol respectively and thus endothermic. The entropy for the removal of Fe, Cu and Ni were found to75.6, 76.2 and 56.5 J/mol respectively showing the strong affinity of MCM41 for the metals. The process was also thermodynamically spontaneous with the spontaneity increasing with an increase in temperature.