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Environmental experts push back on Canadian company’s plans to mine for metal in Maine

Environmental experts push back on Canadian company’s plans to mine for metal in Maine

by Katie Brown | February 7, 2021

Before settlers rushed westward to mine for gold in the mid 1800s, metal was being mined in Maine. As the craze died down out west, word spread of Maine’s potential. A silver rush ensued and scattered operations lasted through the 1900s — until the impacts of two...

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