BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 8, 2023
A Canadian company that wants to drill for precious metals near Pickett Mountain is visiting Maine municipalities and groups to attract support — and promising high-paying jobs in return. Piscataquis County was the latest stop for a representative of Wolfden Resources, an Ontario-based investment group that wants to build a mine in northern Penobscot County, near the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. Mining project supporters tout the advantages of bringing more employment to a rural area where jobs can be hard to come by, but environmentalists have pushed back, fearing harmful effects on fish and wildlife, among other concerns.