MAINE MONITOR • February 12, 2023
Lawmakers, who have introduced (at last count) ten bills aimed at altering Maine’s mining regulations. Changes to Maine’s 2017 law to allow for a lithium deposit in Newry to be mined could also open the door for the extraction of other critical minerals, and it looks like Maine may have many: scientists have long known about a massive manganese cache in Aroostook County, and recently discovered the potential for rare earth elements near Pennington Mountain, a remote peak in the far northern corner of the state.