PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • November 9, 2023
Pickett Mountain in Penobscot County has what one company has identified as the country’s largest undeveloped reserves of an ore containing valuable and beneficial metals. The site of the deposit is just a few miles away from Baxter State Park and the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, and within the life-giving Mattawamkeag River watershed. The uncertainty inherent in the mining of metals means a proposal now before regulators should not go forward. There is simply too much for Maine to lose. The mine proposed for Pickett Mountain would bring tremendous profits to Wolfden, but it’s very hard to see what it would do for anyone else, or for the future of one of Maine’s most treasured areas.