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New report showing increased reshoring means greater U.S. minerals demand

Posted by Iron Mining Association on April 30, 2015 | No Comments

Posted by Mining.com, April 30, 2015 On Tuesday, IndustryWeek highlighted the Reshoring Initiative’s annual report, which states that more than 60,000 manufacturing jobs returned to the United States in 2014. This reflects a 400 percent increase from 2003. Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, shares his insights: “…the trend in manufacturing in the United…
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Talk of new plant, not layoffs by Cliffs Natural Resources in Minnesota

Posted by Iron Mining Association on April 29, 2015 | No Comments

By Dee DePass, Star Tribune, April 29, 2015 Minnesota’s iron ore producers have mostly been cutting back lately as global steel demand slumps. But the CEO of Cliffs Natural Resources gave the state two turns of good news Wednesday, when he targeted a different state in which to idle a taconite plant and announced that…
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