VIRGINIA -- Minnesota's largest iron-ore producer could end up making a new kind of taconite pellet at one or two plants on the Iron Range within the next three years. At Cliffs Natural Resources' ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Cliffs Natural Resources says it’s ready to produce a new kind of iron ore pellet in Minnesota that could potentially open new markets. Cliffs, which operates three taconite mines ...

DULUTH (AP) -- Minnesota's taconite plants could lose their longtime safety nets as the domestic steel industry sells off its mines. Taconite plants are likely to become freestanding profit centers ...

DULUTH – A long-stalled and half-built taconite mine and pellet plant in Nashwauk, Minn., is inching forward again as a reissued air permit for the $2.6 billion project goes out for public review. The ...

EVELETH, Minn. -- Cliffs Natural Resources on Wednesday said it will idle its United Taconite operation on the Iron Range, forcing 420 layoffs as the storm pummeling the U.S. domestic steel and iron ...

In the drive to expand industrial production, the Defense Production Administration last week okayed the biggest single quick-tax-write-off in its history: a $298 million project for Minnesota’s Erie ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency will propose the first-ever limits on mercury emissions from the state’s taconite processing plants, a result of nearly 20 years of legal battles over ...

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 ...

Cleveland-Cliffs said it would temporarily idle two of its Iron Range mines and taconite pellet plants and lay off 630 workers. The iron ore mining and steel-making company said it would idle its ...