Firm Expands Iron Ore Processing Plant in MinnesotaFirm Expands Iron Ore Processing Plant in Minnesota

June 7, 2019

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Firm Expands Iron Ore Processing Plant in Minnesota
A view of a Northshore Mining facility in Silver Bay, MN. Image courtesy of Google Maps

American mining company Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. plans to hold a ribbon cutting event on August 7 to mark the startup of its revamped Northshore Mining iron ore processing plant in Silver Bay, MN, the firm announced in a release Thursday. 

Investing about $100 million in the project, Cleveland-Cliffs installed new production equipment and conveying systems in the facility, upgraded the site’s concentrator building, and added a new scavenger building, a limestone tank, and steam generating plant. The expanded assets will support the firm’s production of DR-grade iron ore pellets. 

When the Silver Bay plant becomes operational, the site will be the only iron ore processing plant in the U.S. that can manufacture low silica DR-grade pellets. Materials produced in the Northshore Mining facility will be used as feedstock in Cleveland-Cliffs’ Toledo, OH hot briquetted iron plant, which is slated for commissioning in mid-2020.

Pellets will also be exported to some international DRI producers.

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