MAINE MONITOR • January 2, 2022
The Maine Monitor’s Oct. 24 report on the recent discovery of what looks to be the world’s richest lithium deposit in western Maine stirred up a number of subsequent news reports and even a proposed moratorium on mining applications in Newry, said Mary Freeman, in an email last month. Freeman and her husband Gary own the land where the deposit was found and have been actively prospecting for gems in the area for decades. The couple is slowly figuring out what to do with the find. State officials visited the site in late October but no decision has been made on what rules excavating the deposit would fall under.