Cliffs Natural Resources officials said Wednesday the company has been testing new, direct-reduced iron taconite pellets at two of its Minnesota plants -- Northshore Mining in Silver Bay and United ...

Superior and Douglas County are in talks with Magnetation Inc. about siting its proposed pellet plant in the Parkland Industrial Park. Matt Lehtinen, president of the Nashwauk-based company, said ...

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 ...

An Iron Range company that recycles waste rock from taconite production has quietly revealed it will not build a new taconite plant in Minnesota. Instead, Magnetation officials say they will build 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 ...

ST. PAUL -- Parts of Minnesota's system of collecting taconite taxes and distributing that revenue need more clarity, transparency and oversight, according to a report released Thursday by the state ...

The recall of laidoff workers at the United Taconite plant and the start of construction on a $65 million iron-ore pellet plant in Forbes, Minn., is bringing much needed good news to Minnesota's Iron ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...