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' ...

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 ...

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. — Construction has started on one of the largest taconite projects in Minnesota in recent years. U.S. Steel dedicated its $150 million plant addition in Keewatin Wednesday as ...

EPA’s regulations set first-ever mercury emissions limits on the mills that process low-grade iron ore known as taconite. A federal appellate court has rebuffed two steelmakers’ bids to freeze ...

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 ...

U.S. Steel plans to invest $150 million in a new Iron Range facility in Minnesota that would make taconite pellets tailored for electric arc steel mills. The Pittsburgh-based company said Tuesday it ...

EVELETH - 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 ore ...

Mesabi Metallics Co. LLC purchased thousands of acres of land in Nashwauk for $12 million last week, according to an electronic certificate of real estate value. San Antonio-based Butlertac Holdings ...

HIBBING (AP) -- Iron Range rocks are becoming fashionable decor. More than 16,000 tons of granite boulders excavated from a played-out EVTAC Mining Co. taconite pit and an abandoned mine dump near ...