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Like its Northshore Mining idling, the company said it's using more scrap and more electric-arc furnaces instead of traditional blast furnaces.

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Cleveland-Cliffs pays the Mesabi Trust royalties based on the volume of its shipments, the price of taconite and the amount of taconite that was mined from land owned by the trust, namely the Peter Mitchell Mine in Babbitt.

The company will use the scrap metal to feed its electric arc furnaces.