LUPC to consider narrowed rezoning request for Pickett Mountain mining project
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Pickett Mountain, in northern Penobscot County, is the site of a proposed metal mine.
The state’s Land Use Planning Commission on Wednesday is scheduled to take up a request to fast-track a rezoning petition that could allow an underground metal mine in northern Penobscot County.
In January, Wolfden Resources Corp. (TSX-V: WLF), of Thunder Bay, Ontario, filed a request to change the zoning of 528 acres at Pickett Mountain, near Mount Chase, for potential use as a mine. The commission, which oversees land use for Maine’s unorganized territories, received the request to change the parcel in T6 R6 WELS from a general management subdistrict to a planned development one.
The new designation is the only zoning that allows for metallic mineral mining in the unorganized territories. Wolfden acquired the parcel as part of a 2017 purchase of 6,900 acres for $8.5 million.
The company identifies potentially valuable mineral deposits, mostly in Canada, but does not develop them on its own. Test drillings have found zinc, lead, copper and silver, and Wolfden has said the site contains “one of the highest-grade undeveloped volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits in North America.”
In August, Wolfden requested that the LUPC narrow the scope of its review to exclude some questions about the long-term environmental impacts and financial viability of the mine. The commissioners are scheduled to discuss the request at their meeting.
More information about the project can be found here.
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