Appeal of Coastal Materials Corp.

This appeal arises from the denial by the Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED) of plaintiff’s application for a mining permit for a 310-acre tract of land which the plaintiff owns in Raymond. We reverse.

Plaintiff, Coastal Materials Corporation (Coastal), is a New Hampshire corporation whose Raymond property contains large microline granite outcroppings suitable for the extraction of granite. Coastal anticipated crushing the extracted granite so that it could be used as construction aggregate. On July 9, 1986, pursuant to RSA chapter 12-E,…