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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.