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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Indiana Economic Development - Indiana iron nuggets plant may be slipping away
Following up on the most recent (March 24th) Indiana Law Blog entry on the iron nugget plant that may be built in Indiana is this story published last weekend in the Duluth News Tribune, headlined "Nugget plant's site not ironclad: Officials will consider an alternate location in Minnesota for a commercial iron nugget plant." Some quotes [emphasis added]:
An alternative to the Northshore Mining Co. site will be considered for development of a $110 million, 500,000-ton-per-year commercial iron nugget plant.The decision was made during a Friday conference call involving Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Iron Range Resources Commissioner Sandy Layman, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner Sheryl Corrigan, Steel Dynamics Inc. president and chief executive officer Keith Busse, and Mesabi Nugget president Larry Lehtinen.
Construction of a commercial plant has been a topic of controversy for about a week after it was learned that Steel Dynamics, a Butler-Ind.-based minimill, might build the first large-scale plant in Indiana rather than at Northshore Mining Co. in Silver Bay, site of a successful 25,000-ton-per-year pilot-demonstration plant. That prospect might change if an alternate Minnesota site is identified.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 30, 2004 12:37 PM
Posted to Indiana economic development