The president of U.S. Steel has announced some good news for that industry.
Some banks in India are suing the Essar Group. They want to be paid back for overruns in cost related to Essar’s unfinished mine and processing plant in Nashwauk.
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple is ordering an emergency evacuation of Dakota Access pipeline protesters who are camping on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land.
Winona County has become the first Minnesota county to ban frac sand mining.
Calumet oil refinery in Superior is making a big splash with plans to sink 30 million dollars into an expansion project.The community was invited to an open discussion forum to ask any question they may have about the project.
Minnesota’s requests to extract Essar Steel’s mineral leases was denied, Tuesday, by a federal bankruptcy judge.
“When I was little on the farm, I didn’t know very many people because there wasn’t many people here. I lived here before Silver Bay even did,” said Jenny Hanson, a resident of Silver Bay.
If you take a trip up Highway 61 along the North Shore of Minnesota, history whispers in the waves.
Three environmental groups have sued the state of Minnesota, accusing it of letting North America’s largest taconite mining operation pollute lakes and streams for decades.
First it was months, then days, and now hours before we will know the 45th President of the United States of America. But before all is said and done, candidates are getting the final word in at rallies.
On Thursday, November 3, 2016, PolyMet submitted a Permit to Mine application for its proposed NorthMet project near Hoyt Lakes.
Enbridge confirmed that today, October 11, 2016, that activists were caught trespassing at the site in Clearbrook, Minnesota. As a result, Enbridge “temporarily shut down the lines 4 and 67 out of an abundance of caution to protect communities, first responders, and the protestors.” The company does not believe that there are any customer impacts to deliveries at this time.
Activists protesting the movement of Tar Sands Oil from Canada into the United States took action today against five pipelines, including pipelines operated by Enbridge Energy and TransCanada in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Congressman Rick Nolan and Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves met at Hibbing Taconite to discuss the mining industry. Nolan also received the Steel Champion award for his work in promoting the mining industry.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced today that its employees that are represented by the United Steelworkers at its Tilden Empire mines in Michigan and its United Taconite and Hibbing Taconite mines in Minnesota, ratified a new 3-year labor contract.
A mining company that hopes to build an underground copper-nickel mine near Ely is suing the federal government to try to keep the mineral rights leases it needs for the nearly $3 billion project to go forward.
Duluth City Councilors Anderson, Sipress, and Westerlund seek evidentiary hearings on a possible Polymet permit to mine application. The hearing would bring the application before a judge who would hear both sides of the issue.
United Taconite resumed production of taconite pellets on the Iron Range this week.
The announcement is another bit of bad news for the Magnetation Company which filed for bankruptcy in May of last year and has never been quite the same.
Magnetation LLC announced Friday that it may implement a shutdown of its Minnesota iron ore concentrate plant, rail loading facility and Pellet Plant located in Reynolds, Indiana. If implemented, a shutdown would occur on or after September 30,2016.
On August 24, PolyMet submitted an air permit application to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) for its proposed NorthMet project in northeastern Minnesota.
Supporters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness delivered a message in Duluth today, with over 65,000 copies attached.
Many mining supporters and opponents voiced their opinions on the renewal of Twin Metals mineral lease renewals.
A bold plan from Cliffs to take over bankrupt Essar Steel project to create hundreds of new mining jobs on the Iron Range.
The Forest Service held their first public listening session on two Twin Metals mineral leases. The Forest Service is deciding whether or not to renew the leases. The leases are located in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Late Thursday, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar told FOX 21 more than 400 Northshore miners were back on the job in Silver Bay and Babbitt, which is sooner than expected.
Cliffs Natural Resources released their first-quarter earnings Thursday, exceeding expectations.
United States Steel Corp. (X) on Tuesday reported a loss of $340 million in its first quarter.
A tentative deal has been reached between the United Steel Workers Union and ArcelorMittal.
United States Steel Corp. has filed a complaint with U.S. regulators against the biggest Chinese steel producers, accusing them of conspiring to fix prices, stealing trade secrets and skirting duties on imports in the U.S. with false labeling.
The Department of Natural Resources is restricting what kinds of signs people can bring to a forum in Aurora on the permitting process for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine.
A County Board in northeastern Minnesota has dropped a proposed resolution against copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area after Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk warned that they’d risk losing state money.
Essar Steel Minnesota is overdue on a payment it promised to the state for failing to meet project deadlines on the Iron Range taconite plant its building.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton plans to meet with officials on the Iron Range just weeks after he dealt a blow to a proposed copper-nickel-precious metals mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Governor Mark Dayton has signed a long-awaited bill to extend unemployment benefits for thousands of laid-off miners on the Iron Range.
Minnesota’s Legislature has voted to extend unemployment insurance for thousands of laid-off miners on the Iron Range.
Minnesota’s Senate is hoping to solve a standoff over extending unemployment benefits to Iron Range steelworkers.
The head of Cliffs Natural Resources says he expects to resume production at United Taconite in Eveleth and Forbes sometime this year.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton says he will sign any bill that extends unemployment benefits for laid-off steelworkers on the Iron Range, even if it includes a tax break for businesses.
A state House committee has passed a measure that would extend unemployment benefits for laid-off steelworkers, but would also give some money back to Minnesota’s employers.
Cliffs Natural Resources announced Monday that it will restart iron ore production at Northshore Mining in Silver Bay.
Minnesota’s Senate has passed a bill extending unemployment benefits for laid-off steelworkers, however it is not a done deal.
Elected officials gathered in the Capital building in St. Paul for the start of 2016 Legislative Session.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is laying out his opposition to a proposed copper-nick mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
The PolyMet mine project has cleared a major hurdle with the DNR determining that the environmental impact statement for the project meet’s state standards for adequacy.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is getting ready to announce whether it will approve the final environmental review for what would be Minnesota’s first copper-nickel mine.
The White House is stepping up efforts to crack down on illegal steel dumping.
A federal program will allow laid-off steelworkers to attend college free at Bemidji State Univerisity.
RJS Construction Group in Superior announced Tuesday that the company will shut down.
President Barack Obama told Governor Mark Dayton this weekend to expect “firm, tough enforcement on existing trade laws.”
