by John Myers, Duluth News Tribune Mines off all kinds across the U.S. produced an estimated $74.6 billion of raw mineral materials in 2016, a slight increase from 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey announced Tuesday. Read more.
Read more »by Steel Market Update Two of America’s steel industry leaders are among a team of 28 business leaders assembled by President Trump to provide ideas on how to promote job growth in the manufacturing sector. Read more.
Read more »by Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post Gazette U.S. Steel president and CEO Mario Longhi is included in a group of business leaders that President Donald Trump plans to rely on in his efforts to increase U.S. manufacturing jobs. Read more.
Read more »by WDIO President Donald Trump signed several executive orders on Tuesday, that could benefit steelworkers in the Northland. Read more.
Read more »by Joanne Klimovich Harrop, Trib Live The Rust Belt — a geographic area that once served as the hub of American industry — was the inspiration for a new T-shirt line created by two elementary school buddies from Youngstown, Ohio. Read more.
Read more »This letter acknowledges, with great appreciation, our neighbor and peer David Ross, president of the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce for his Dec. 31 Opinion piece in the News Tribune (Local View: “Sharing responsibility for council’s misguided actions”) and for his Jan. 6 Opinion piece in the Duluth Budgeteer (“City Council disrupting our Twin Ports”)….
Read more »by Jerry Burnes, Mesabi Daily News U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar brought the issue of illegal steel dumping right to the doorstep of the Trump Administration on Wednesday. Read more.
Read more »by WDIO The first large wave of people returning to work at Keetac starts on Tuesday. Read more.
Read more »by Joseph S. Pete, Northwest Indiana Times Steelmakers in the United States shipped 6.72 million tons of steel products in November, the most recent month for which data was available. Read more.
Read more »by Ranjeetha Pakiam, Bloomberg Iron ore imports by China surged to a record above 1 billion metric tons last year as unexpectedly strong steel production and lower local mine output combined to fire up demand in the world’s top buyer for cargoes from Australia and Brazil, supporting a rebound in prices. Read more.
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