During their one day special session, lawmakers signed off on the unemployment extension for 600+ steelworkers. The miners are facing an indefinite lay off, at both Hibtac and Minorca Mine. The ...

Steam rises in a sunset at the Minorca Mine in Virginia, Minn. Cleveland-Cliffs laid off approximately 600 workers at two taconite mines on the Iron Range included Minorca and part of Hibbing Taconite ...

Good news for laid off steelworkers in our region. State senators agreed to an extension of unemployment benefits. Cliffs announced last month they were idling Minorca and partially idling Hibtac.

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