“Now we have a firm timeline to start bringing people back to work,” Goncalves said. “Actually we already started to contact the first folks that we need back on the job to start working on the restarting of U-Tac.”
Cliffs closed United Taconite last August amid a surge of cheap and often illegally dumped steel into the U.S. that caused steelmakers to drastically cut back on their purchase of iron ore pellets from Minnesota mines.
