The company plans to lay off 630 employees in 60 days. Sen. Grant Hauschild said Cliffs has excess pellets, and the auto industry, which uses Cliffs steel, faces "challenging economic conditions." ...
Cleveland-Cliffs, the largest player in mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, is exploring whether the company should shift the focus of one of its mines in Minnesota from taconite to rare earth minerals.
LANSING — The country's second-largest iron-ore mine, unionized steelworkers and Upper Peninsula lawmakers are calling for approval of measures that would keep open power generators they warn are at ...