Taconite News

Hibbing Taconite will stay shut down through April of next year, keeping its 700 employees out of work longer than initially planned.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend On The Move Four-year engineering program to be offered on Iron Range 4/9/2009 by Beth Bily A four-year engineering degree program will be launched on the Iron Range next fall, thanks to collaboration of numerous Iron Range stakeholders and funding secured through Iron Range Resources.

A Chevrolet pickup truck rear-ended a snow plow just before 2 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 2 East near Animal Land.

United Taconite LLC of Eveleth has been hit with a $125,000 fine for failing to meet state air quality rules and standards, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said today.

If Jason Hemphill cuts corners in his personal finances, he thinks he can "survive the summer." The heavy equipment operator at Hibbing Taconite is one of 440 union workers who will be furloughed by the end of ...

Employees of yet another Iron Range mine are preparing for an upcoming shutdown.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar called for action on major renewable energy legislation at a roundtable meeting with Minnesota Power yesterday .

Nearly 600 workers on Minnesota's Iron Range are losing their jobs. U.S. Steel announced Thursday it will lay off 590 workers and idle two additional lines at its Minntac Mine in Mountain Iron.

A truck dumps taconite ore into one of the crushers at Hibbing Taconite Co. in Hibbing, Minn.

With the taconite industry in the dumps, many people on Minnesota's Iron Range are eagerly awaiting a federal stimulus package.

When the bottom fell out of the iron and steel industries in the mid-1980s, the Iron Range really only had two of the three economic a oeTa sa in play - Taconite and Timber.

Experts on a health panel on cancer rates among Iron Range miners said Thursday evening they are making progress on a number of related studies.

After years of prosperity that crescendoed to a boom for much of 2008, the world economic crisis has brought hard times back to the Iron Range with stunning speed.

The issue was to allow a forbearance for a year on a $6 million loan payment by Global Essar for its $1.65 billion steel mill project in Nashwauk.

A wind farm on Minnesota's Iron Range was fully online this summer, but seven of the 10 wind turbines have been shut off in recent months for repairs.

Production halt looms at Keetac: Cutbacks, layoffs expected at other Minnesota taconite mining operations, as well.

Minnesota Powera s Taconite Ridge wind farm isna t producing nearly as much electricity as anticipated in recent months, with seven of the 10 wind turbines shut off for repairs.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend Business North - The Daily Briefing - Business Newspaper Online Production halt looms at Keetac:Cutbacks, layoffs expected at other Minnesota taconite ...

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend Business North - The Daily Briefing - Business Newspaper Online Iron Range Resources announces 2009 culture and tourism grant awards 12/3/2008 Iron Range ...