Top officials of Cliffs Natural Resources on Thursday said they have successfully completed a two-week, full-scale test production of a new kind of taconite pellet that can be used to make directly ...

KEEWATIN, Minn. — U.S. Steel dedicated a $150 million plant addition here Wednesday, one of the largest Minnesota taconite projects in recent history. With the new investment, U.S. Steel's Keewatin ...

VIRGINIA -- Minnesota's largest iron-ore producer could end up making a new kind of taconite pellet at two of its Iron Range plants sometime in the next three years. Cliffs Natural Resources officials ...

Construction continues at the site of Mesabi Metallics on Nov. 19, in Nashwauk, Minn. After almost two decades, the nearly $2 billion project is nearing completion with a goal of producing pellets by ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- The Iron Range is poised for a rebound in 2004 after a year of turmoil in which Minnesota's taconite industry produced 3.2 million tons less than 2002 and hundreds of workers were ...

DULUTH -- Increased demand for steel is providing some welcome relief in northeastern Minnesota, where taconite pellet plants are coming back online after one of the worst years in recent memory. The ...

The rule is expected to cut about 33 percent of the neurotoxin each year, thereby reducing deposits on Midwest lands and waters. EPA has finalized the nation’s first-ever limits on emissions of ...

A Minnesota state senator said mine operator Cleveland-Cliffs plans to reopen Northshore Mining in early April, nearly a year after shutting down and laying off 450 workers. State Sen. Grant Hauschild ...