HEAGAN MOUNTAIN, Maine — A dispute is heating up between residents of a small town on the Penobscot River and a Virginia-based mining company that wants to quarry granite there.
The company applied for two key permits last month. Salmons, Inc. has already purchased most of Heagan Mountain in Prospect, a town of 600.
The Bangor Daily News reported Tuesday that many who live there are bitterly opposed to the $12 million dollar mining project.
The company is now asking the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for permits to build a mineral processing facility and an associated pier on Bowden Point.
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