The iron ore from Minnesota combined with a new steel works in Iowa. GOOD STUFF!
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced one of the largest steel plants in American history: a $15 billion Mesabi Metallics mill in Iowa. The project will create 1,750 permanent Iowa jobs, support up to 6,000 construction jobs, and is projected to add $95 billion to the U.S. economy over the next decade.
The mill will produce 7.5 million tons of steel per year in its first phase, rising to about ten million tons, using iron ore from Mesabi Metallics’ newly opened Minnesota mine — the first new iron ore mine in the United States in 50 years. {MORE}
The Question and Answer session begins at 22:40. WATCH:
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Wow! What I voted for. A president more interested in outcomes than winning arguments.
Excellent! More please!
“With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty…” The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot 1975
Sorry, Sundance, great story, but these were honestly the very first words that hit my mind before I could even finish reading it!
Now let’s talk about the robotics and AI logistics that will be involved in this plant production. No one wants to talk about this. Tick tock
SI will support labor and make it super productive. Much higher paying than the old steel mills from 75 years ago. 100% good news. No worries.
Yes, highly automated just like automobile plants.
A new steel plant is news that wins elections.
LOL…….what a timeline to be alive.
It will be interesting to see where one of the messiest parts of the steel making process, Coke is made.
The US has the coal but the process is messy and will be costly to avoid the real pollution issues with the process of making coke. This will require a major capital investment to build up Coke plants.
I grew up near the Coke Plants in Southwestern PA .. it was not pleasant to say the least.
This will also require other processed minerals such as limestone.
Allot of peripheral benefits to industries that supply the other ingredients needed to make steel as well as the special alloys of steel needed for industry and defense.
Yes, and the local residents who are having meltdowns over a data center nearby are going to welcome a steel mill with open arms?
Depends on the processes used to actually make the steel and coke.
Even in the 1970’s the Germans and Japanese had already perfected “clean processes” for producing steel. One of the major dirty secrets in the US was the cost to pay the Unions combined with the need to compete with subsidized German, Argentine, Brazilian and Japanese Steel Producers.
The reason all those filthy mills along the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers in Southwestern PA ran so dirty using “older processes” was the capital cost to the owners to invest, cost to pay union workers and comply with emerging clean air standards as they competed vs subsidized foreign competitors.
The Clairton Coke Works (outside of Pittsburgh) is the largest coking operation in North America, and possibly the world. The 392-acre facility has operated since the beginning of the 20th century and is capable of producing 4.7 million tons of coke annually in its nine batteries. It can easily be transported by a combination of barge and rail to Iowa. I grew up very near there and have the lungs to show for it.
The United Kingdom is down to one blast furnace, with efforts being made to close that remaining one down. They had a hundred or more during World War Two. Their goose is cooked.
This is fantastic! Great job President Trump and Project Team!
Prayers it actually gets built and produces. These things take a long time and that means any of a hundred parties can stop it.
I live less than 5 miles from the largest hole in the ground ever: the Ohio Intel fabs. Was supposed to start ops this year and there is not even a whisper as to when it’s a go. Billions in tax subsidies and yet zero return.
There is an incredible live video report in this Tweet below.
WHAT a justaposition within one media segment. Canada losing 500 steel jobs due to Chinese imports, while President Trump announces building America’s largest steel mill in Iowa due to blocking Chinese imports. Seriously. WATCH: