VIRGINIA -- Minnesota's largest iron-ore producer could end up making a new kind of taconite pellet at two of its Iron Range plants sometime in the next three years. Cliffs Natural Resources officials ...

KEEWATIN, Minn. — U.S. Steel dedicated a $150 million plant addition here Wednesday, one of the largest Minnesota taconite projects in recent history. With the new investment, U.S. Steel's Keewatin ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Quebecois and the Gordon C. Leitch arrive in the port today to load taconite pellets and the CN/DM&IR dock, while two ships are arriving to load coal at the Superior Midwest Energy Terminal.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency will propose the first-ever limits on mercury emissions from the state’s taconite processing plants, a result of nearly 20 years of legal battles over ...

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 ...

The rule would require the six taconite processing plants located in northeastern Minnesota to cut their emissions by 57% by the end of 2026 The Northshore Mining plant in Silver Bay, Minnesota, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taconite plants, the largest industrial source of mercury pollution in Minnesota, have vented the toxic metal for years into the air without enforced limits. Those days are likely coming to an end.