Last Thursday, Keetac workers raised more than $1,200 for a local food shelf through its semiannual gate collection, where employees donate money as they enter the workplace. The funds raised for this gate collection were given to Neighbors Helping Neighbors, the food shelf in Nashwauk. In a recent article in the Hibbing Daily Tribune, Dan […]
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Minnesota’s iron ore mines contribute millions of dollars annually to Minnesota’s Permanent School Fund, which distributes money to every public school in the state. In 2014, U. S. Steel’s Minnesota Ore Operations contributed more than $37 million in royalty payments to the trust funds. This amounts to 84 percent of the total contributions in 2014.
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The Iron Ore Alliance supports proposed legislation that would require publicly funded construction and maintenance projects in Minnesota to give preference to American-manufactured iron, steel, and other manufactured goods. The Iron Range is where the steelmaking process begins, and the region provides high-quality, well-paying jobs to thousands of people. We hope the Minnesota Legislature will support
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The United Way of Northeastern Minnesota presented the “Taconite Challenge Award” to the Minntac mining operation at the nonprofit’s annual campaign celebration dinner last week. The traveling trophy is given annually to the mining facility with the highest employee participation in the United Way’s giving campaign. Minntac, the single largest iron ore pelletizing operation in
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The Iron Ore Alliance is pleased that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is continuing its work to determine an appropriate sulfate level standard based on sound science for each body of water in the state. Minnesota’s sulfate water quality standard is a critical issue for the taconite mining industry and Minnesota is the only
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The discussion surrounding Minnesota’s sulfate standard to protect wild rice is extremely important to our industry, but it also has the potential to impact the entire state of Minnesota. This video provides a nine-minute summary of the issue, featuring presentations from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and other environmental experts who conducted an independent study
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