MAINE PUBLIC • August 12, 2020
A proposed mining project in Northern Penobscot County has cleared its first steps with the state's Land Use Planning Commission. Ontario-based Wolfden Resources Corporation is applying for a zoning change on more than 500 of the 6,800 acres it owns around Pickett Mountain near Patten, potentially putting the company on the road to the state's first metallic mining operation since the 1970s. But Maine conservationists are questioning why the LUPC is moving ahead with the application process, when basic aspects of the project remain unclear.