— A new firm, the Calumet Reclamation Company, wants to process several iron waste piles around Calumet for rich hematite ore. Then, they want to ship it to a new pig iron plant in North Dakota. The same firm wants to excavate the site of the Hill Annex Mine State Park while dewatering the deep pit there for more mining activity.

 — Atico Mining (TSXV: ATY) is focused on advancing copper-gold projects in Colombia and Ecuador. The company's principal asset is the producing, 90%-held El Roble underground copper-gold-silver...

 — These projects include new mine development, additional concentrator, PGMs smelter expansion, PGM Base Metal Refinery (BMR) plant, sulphuric acid plant as well as the 110 MW Solar power plant. Mimosa Mining Company, Zvishavane, Midlands

 — U.S. Steel plans to spend $150 million to upgrade one of its two Minnesota mines to produce a new kind of iron ore feedstock now used in the majority of the nation's steel mills.

 — Railroad transporting iron ore from Vale's Carajás complex in Brazil. Source: Vale. Brazilian miner Vale said on Monday it has been selected by the US government to begin negotiations for a...

 — Most of the DRI pellets will be shipped to a new $830 million iron plant Cliffs plans to open in Toledo, Ohio, next year, where they will be turned into hot-briquetted iron, a compacted form of...

 — Up to 130 jobs could be created in Ohio at a new iron ore processing facility to be operated by Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE:CLF).

 — U.S. Steel will spend about $150 million to upgrade one of its two Minnesota mines to produce a new kind of iron ore feedstock — pellets needed to supply the kind of mills that now dominate...

 — Samancor has two mining centres: Eastern Chrome Mines (ECM) in the Steelport area of Mpumalanga Province and Western Chrome Mines (WCM) near Rustenberg and Brits in Northwest Province. Both units now comprise five underground mining areas, each with a hoisting shaft, while WCM also includes an open-cut mine.

 — DULUTH — U.S. Steel will build a $150 million direct-reduced-grade pellet plant at one of its existing Iron Range facilities to help feed its electric arc furnaces.