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The steel manufacturer Cleveland-Cliffs, which owns the mine where Mr. Bird works, reported a $483 million loss for the first three months of 2025, which meant jobs were on the line, including his.

Cliffs Natural Resources / Cleveland-Cliffs Northshore Mining in Silver Bay, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. This industrial plant converts iron ore pellets mined from Babbitt in ...

Cleveland Cliffs in recent weeks had announced that it will idle or partially idle two iron ore mines in Minnesota, affecting 630 workers. It also said in March that it will idle a steel plant in ...

Iron miners in Hibbing, Minn., in the early 1900s. The mines drew thousands of immigrants from Finland and Croatia and everywhere in between. Underwood Archives — Archive Photos, via Getty Images ...

Sponsored by Strack & Van Til. Cleveland-Cliffs is temporarily laying off 630 workers in Minnesota as it idles two mines that supply iron ore to its steel mills in Northwest Indiana.

WA's Yilgarn region has been home to iron ore mining on and off since the 1950s, but the final trainload of the steel-making ingredient has arrived at Esperance Port.

In the antitrust suit, Mesabi alleges that Cleveland-Cliffs unlawfully impeded Mesabi from building its iron ore mine and pelletizing plant in Minnesota.

Credit: Land of Iron They drilled the iron ore by hand in cramped, crowded and dark conditions. Steve Hall from Land of Iron said: "It's really difficult to imagine quite how hard a life they had.

Additionally, Cleveland-Cliffs as recently as 2018 told the state that ore deposits still exist in the mine and presented a 17-year plan to extract them, Derocha said.

U.S. Steel's 1901 founding transformed the Iron Range, and the iconic Pittsburgh-based company still employs 1,800 people at its iron ore mines and pellet plants in Keewatin and Mountain Iron.

In a striking revelation by investment heavyweight Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), a crunch in the global iron ore supply is looming as the year winds down.