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Article: United States: Iron Range mines could lose up to 1000 more jobs.
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- Article date:
- February 26, 2009
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Byline: sanjayV03
More cuts at Iron Range mines were announced Tuesday.The next rounds of casualties are expected to occur at Hibbing Taconite Co. and Northshore Mining Co. and probably will affect more than 1,000 workers.
Cliffs Natural Resources notified workers Tuesday that it will idle the second of Hibtac s three lines at the end of March, a move expected to result in the layoff of 83 people. This will be followed in May by a 15-week shutdown of the facility, affecting almost the entire 596-person staff at Hibtac.
Meanwhile, Cliffs told workers at Northshore Mining Co. in Babbitt and Silver Bay the plant will cease production for a month, ...