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

DULUTH, Minn. -- Minnesota's largest mining companies got some gifts a few days late this holiday season, but it was well worth the wait. The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board on Wednesday doled out nearly $6 million in taconite tax r...

BABBITT — Red Cross volunteers and Babbitt city workers began preparations Tuesday morning after the town was established as a new hub to house fire evacuees and assist crews fighting

United Steelworkers (USW) is making an effort to unionize miners at Northshore Mining Company. Steelworker officials are conducting an organizing campaign at Northshore's taconite mine in Babbitt and processing plant in Silver Bay to determine whether a majority of the facility's roughly 480 hourly-paid miners support USW representation. “We're just trying to give them a voice,” John Arbogast, USW District 11 staff representative said. “What we tell them is once you have a union and a contract, everything like wages and pensions are in a contract and guaranteed.” USW repre...

Minnesota’s taconite industry not on pace to meet state's mercury reduction targets by 2025 Plans submitted by mining companies show an industrywide reduction of 15% by 2025, far less than the 72% required by the state. 8:21 pm, May 27, 2021 × Steam rises out of the stacks at United Taconite in Forbes. (File / News Tribune) The Iron Range’s taconite plants say they can’t meet the state's mercury reduction requirement because it’s too expensive and/or not technically possible, putting the state at risk of missing its 2025 mercury reduction goal set more than a d...