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| TABLE 3 | ||||||||||||
| IRON OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2014 | ||||||||||||
| (Million metric tons unless otherwise specified) | ||||||||||||
| State and operation | County or Parish | Operator | Primary product | Capacity1 | Production1 | Reserves2, 3 | ||||||
| Indiana: | ||||||||||||
| Iron Dynamics | DeKalb | Steel Dynamics Inc. | Hot-briquetted iron | 0.3 | 0.3 | (4) | ||||||
| Reynolds Pellet Plant | White | Magnetation, Inc.- | Iron ore pellets | 3.3 | NA | (4) | ||||||
| Louisiana, Nucor Steel Louisiana, LLC | St. James | Nucor Corp.- | Direct-reduced iron | 2.5 | NA | (4) | ||||||
| Michigan: | ||||||||||||
| Empire Mine | Marquette | Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. | Iron ore pellets | 5.6 | 4.4 | 14.8 | ||||||
| Tilden | do. | do. | do. | 8.1 | 7.7 | 673 | ||||||
| Minnesota: | ||||||||||||
| Hibbing Taconite | Saint Louis | do. | Iron ore pellets | 8.1 | 7.8 | 264 | ||||||
| Keewatin Taconite | Itasca | United States Steel Corp. | do. | 5.4 | 5.3 | 351 | ||||||
| Mesabi Chief Plant #1- | do. | Magnetation, Inc.- | Iron ore concentrates | 0.4 | 0.3 | 3.6 | ||||||
| Mesabi Chief Plant #2 | do. | do. | do. | 1.0 | 0.8 | 18 | ||||||
| Mesabi Chief Plant #4 | do. | do. | do. | 2.0 | (5) | NA | ||||||
| Mesabi Nugget Delaware LLC | Saint Louis | Steel Dynamics Inc. | Iron nuggets | 0.4 | 0.2 | (4) | ||||||
| Mining Resources LLC | do. | do. | Iron ore concentrates | 1.0 | 0.4 | NA | ||||||
| Minntac Mine | do. | United States Steel Corp.- | Iron ore pellets | 15 | 15 | 476 | ||||||
| Minorca | do. | ArcelorMittal S.A. | do. | 2.7 | 2.9 | 134 | ||||||
| Northshore Mine | Lake, Saint Louis | Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. | do. | 6.1 | 5.3 | 1,050 | ||||||
| United Taconite | Saint Louis | do. | do. | 5.5 | 5.0 | 483 | ||||||
| Utah, Comstock Mountain Lion Mine | Iron | CML Metals Corp. | Iron ore concentrates | 2.0 | NA | (6) | ||||||
| do. Ditto. NA Not available.- | ||||||||||||
| 1As reported by the respective company in annual reports, oral communications, published online data, or Securities Exchange Commission filings. | ||||||||||||
| 2Proven and probable reserves or equivalent, including those on owned and leased property, as reported by the company at the last publicly available date. | ||||||||||||
| 3Magnetation, Inc. owned mineral rights for 1,400 million metric tons of unspecified iron ore equivalent resources or reserves as of April 2014. | ||||||||||||
| 4Facility does not operate an independent mine and has no reserves. | ||||||||||||
| 5Facility opened in December 2014 and reported no marketable production for the year. | ||||||||||||
| 6CML Metals Corp. idled the Comstock Mountain Lion Mine on October 18, 2014. | ||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
