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A legislative committee tasked with evaluating a slate of mining-related bills made no recommendation on which one(s) to advance after a work session on last week, with members insisting they needed more time to weigh the proposals. The committee...

If a developer can prove a mining operation wouldn't pollute the environment, it would be exempted from some regulations.

Chemical processing of a material would still be regulated under the mining act, which has strict standards for treating mine waste, known as tailings.

A bill prompted by the discovery of a world-class lithium deposit in Newry would dramatically change Maine law to allow mining of metals in open pits of any size, with up to 100 acres actively mined at any time. Developers would have to prove they...

The current three-acre limit prohibits the mining of a lithium deposit in Newry that could be worth over $1 billion.

The current three-acre limit prohibits the mining of a possible $1 billion lithium deposit in Newry.

By some estimates, the lithium deposits near Newry may be the largest in the country — with the potential to become a critical domestic supply for automakers and so valuable that they could provide a needed boost to Maine’s economy. But there's more to the story.

Near the Sunday River Ski resort, in the small Western Maine town of Newry, lies one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium.

It was an evening filled with cheers and applause, laughter, and occasionally some tears but, most of all, pride, as Grand Bahama’s theater lovers dressed in their finest to join the new executive team of the Freeport Players Guild (FPG) for the grand reopening of the iconic Regency Theatre. The evening began with a ribbon

One geologist estimates that Pennington Mountain in Aroostook County contains billions of dollars worth of rare materials used in military, industrial and clean-energy technologies.