A review of Chicago skyscrapers (The interactive part didn't work for me. Fortunately, it also has a conventional presentation.) The 138' Home Insurance Building was built in 1885. That was 21 years after the first steel ingot was cast in America.

South Steel Works "request for information"

A collection of photos of the Jones & Laughlin Steel facilities

Bill Molony posted
This is a portion of a 1904 Army Corps Of Engineers map that shows the position of the tracks of both the Chicago & Alton Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad adjacent to the Illinois Steel Company and the Illinois State penitentiary on the north side of Joliet.

A history from the perspective of making money (RodneyOhebsion)

A really nice aerial photo of the south side with some description.

Supersonic Oxygen Lance 1996 video

Beth Steel video
WA Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop

Adding new rail to Arcelor Mittal West to the old LTV plant.

Mittal to restart blast furnace at Indiana Harbor East (Andrew Shafer This article says US steel in granite city is going back online, I can't find any articles saying this?)

Burns Harbor reorganization
22:42 video of 1962 Burns Harbor construction
11:25 video Forging Ahead: Exploring The Steelmaking Process

Arcelor Mittal: Burns Harbor, IN
Arcelor Mittal: Indiana Harbor, IN
ViktorMacha has photos of five other steel plants in USA

Bilbao along the Nervion River text and pictures (Facebook posting)

EAF Quuantum electric furnace from Primetals Technologies

Southeast Side History

MWRD 1923 photo with USS South Works in the background.

Page 2 is a map of four steel related museums in Perkasie

Flickr of IC covered coil car

My Kropp Forge

news with some nice pictures

(From closed-die forging so I could publish: For future reference: making steel another?)

hot coke car

constructing a steam locomotive

Iron Range turning a corner?

Wisconsin Steel plant, another posting

2017 video of a long bottle train with high-hood GP38-2s

ISG bottle train arriving at Riverdale. A comment shows another bottle train

Interlake 1965: blowing the "skull" off a bottle car with oxygen lance. comments concerning the danger of steel making

AM Riverdale BOF and bottle car #144

Interlake (ISCX) protector caboose on a hot metal train

coal-free steelmaking

Interlake ISCX transfer caboose Used on bottle runs between the blast furnace plant and Riverdale

Interlake Inc. (Conrail loco)

2 Bessemer locos at old LTF Steel on EJ&E's former lake front line.

Columbus Castings killing 550-799 jobs

bottle pouring at Riverdale (Acme Steel)

Raymond Boothe posted
Acme Steel: Blast furnace "A" pouring slag (Dr. Raymond Boothe Photograph).

status: more Kentucky tax money for AK Steel

status: Jeffersonville plans advance

status: steel imported from Europe from 2016 Shipping!

old LTV Steel plant (now AM) loco shop

IU's US Steel photo collection

bottle: AM servicing

Posting of a link to pictures of a rolling mill

National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum posted two photos with the comment: "he 84-inch Steam Powered Mill built in 1870 was the first significant expansion that Lukens made. It was later dwarfed by the 204-inch mill opened in 1918. "

Joshua Flott

Was it originally a 204? Because it currently is a 206.

National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum

Joshua Flott

yes it originally was 204 in 1918 then in 1919 it was expanded to 206.

Pat Morroney

Still # 1

[It looks like the kind with a single stand where the plate is rolled back and forth with the gap decreased each time.]

Andrew Denelsbeck shared

status: fourth round of layoffs (questions need to be answered) The company, with annual revenues of $1.7 billion in 2014, produces high-frequency electric resistant welding (ERW) process steel pipes used in oil and gas extraction and transmission at the sprawling Wilder mill alongside the Licking River. The company closed steel mills in Pennsylvania and Iowa last year.

Alabama Metal closing its doors. "The Bourbonnais plant is located just east of the CB&I Construction Warehouse." "Tim Nugent, CEO and president of the Economic Alliance of Kankakee County, said the company's announcement was surprising because during a visit to the plant this summer he was informed nearly $5 million was invested here on facility upgrades."

bottle car types

bottle train

Last steel mill part built by William B. Pollock was in 1983.

Pollock loading a ladle to ship to Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s Indiana Harbor Works.

status: China tarrif

status: Countries dumping? Brazil, China, India and Russia

German's complaint concerning China (used)

more iron ore pellets being shipped to China and Japan (where does the iron come from that goes through Conneaut, OH?) (Note the comments about grain through Thunder Bay. One reason is that they ignored the Canadian Wheat Board.)

China's transition away from heavy industry is going to be tricky.

US Steel wants to accelerate investments, bring back jobs, CEO says Actually, I think what he really wants is tariffs imposed so that prices go up. Then he will invest. But he will create very few jobs because of the investment because the plants will be automated. The real question is where is he buying the machinery he puts into his plants --- domestic or foreign plant tooling? Trump has fooled so many people about "manly" jobs in America, it is scary.

11/02/2016 Bedrock buys USS Canada12/02/2016 Return of Stelco: Hamilton, Nanticoke, Ont. plants cast off U.S. Steel label Why can Stelco make money when USS could not? Fewer vice-presidents on payroll? No union?

11/30/2016 Former Wheeling-Pitt Mill Gets a New Owner, and a New Lease on Life They installed an electric arc furnace in 2004, but then shut down in 2009. It sounds like the 2008 recession hit the steel industry as well as the housing market.

USS South Works with J caboose, description and 15 photos

Google search, a better search (1, 2, SE Industries), maybe even better

A brief history

Video of Bethlehem blast furnace in 1995.

new bottle car

Republic Steel

mulls idling options, shut down of aluminizing line

Steel slabs unit train

heavy hauling three cauldrons

unit trains: slabs, coils

Calumet Heritage

Ladel full of steel. In 1956 Gary's US Steel had 12 blast furnaces producing 800 to 1550 tons daily.

Republic Steel warehouse insides in 1952. Aerial view in 1967.

Shoveling into an open hearth at Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp, 1947.

City of Steel used: http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/09/early-railroads-bought-their-rails-from.html

1986 redevelopment of USS Joliet works also used in http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/09/early-railroads-bought-their-rails-from.html

Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Iroquis Plant 1950

Steel imports from Belgian

Jeff Davis posted

Illinois Steel Company.
Chicago.
Year Unknown.

Photo courtesy of John Marbach.

Edgar Thompson Works

Steve OConnor posted
Acme Steel Company-South Chicago Furnace Plant: Spotting a torpedo car (Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection).
Ken Jamin Actually they're loaded with molten IRON, not steel. These cars transfer molten iron at @ 2800 deg. from the blast furnaces to the BOF oxygen furnaces where the iron is mixed with scrap, oxygen is then blown through it to remove the impurities and turned into steel. I have ridden these bottles/ladles in USS Gary works @ 10 years ago when I was working with the FRA and accompanying a switch crew. End platforms aren't bad but the heat from the sides can be felt 20 ft. away! The insides are lined with refractory firebrick, which must be kept hot at all times. If the cars are not needed they are placed on a track where a huge blowtorch is placed inside the car through the opening to keep it hot. If the firebrick cools, it must be removed and replaced, an expensive proposition! Bottle cars weigh @ 150 tons empty, and have a capacity of @ 250 tons of iron. And, the intra-plant cars have no brakes, just wood wheel chocks!
Ken Jamin Oh, and in addition to my regular PPE that I wore every day, I had to shave off my goatee, (so that a mask could be applied if I were overcome with furnace gas), wear a flame-resistant two-piece welders suit, a carbon monoxide monitor/alarm on my lapel, hard hat and special steel-toed boots with internal metatarsal guards, per USS policy. Ah, those were the days!

Steve OConnor posted

Steve OConnor postedWisconsin Steel Corporation: Dumping slag in South Chicago (WIS Photo-Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection).David Raley When I was a conductor for CSX switching a local at NUCOR steel in Crawfordsville, IN, there was a nearby slag pit that when dumped into would light up the whole sky even when it couldn't be seen from where you were standing. The first time I saw it I actually started to run toward my engine because I thought it was an explosion in the mill, but the engineer explained it was just NUCOR's slag dumper and no loud boom would follow the big light it made.
(Used in South Deering Yard)

Kam Miller commented on above posting
I got to see that happen one time. This train was coming back from doing that.

Steve OConnor commented on above posting
U.S. Steel South Works, Chicago lighting up the night sky along the Calumet near the Lake. South Works expanded their property into Lake Michigan by dumping slag there.

Steve OConnor posted
The United States Steel Corporation-South Chicago Works: EJ&E train pulling out of the South Works (USS Photo-Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection).
Ron Zack An obvious masking job (the foreground and background do not match at all!), done in the days before Photoshop. But still a cool photo.
[The Alcos, South Works and EJ&E are now gone.]

Wayne Hudak posted
When The J had thousands of coal hoppers.

Steve OConnor posted
US Steel South Works (Chicago): EL&E locomotive with slug (Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection).
Steve Malachinski spent a few nights on that engine running coke up the highline
Steve Malachinski We called them Lead sleds at The J. There were 4 that I know of we had two at South Works. One worked the highline and one worked the hot metal side.

Jeff Nichols posted
Wisconsin Steel, 106th and Torrence, 2000. UIC
Pension 16-years late
Charles Nosich 6 mill
James Solorio Worked 6 mill, concast, coke plant that was work.
Charles Nosich Worked all them,blast furnace was home.
Bob Radtke A lifetime ago I worked a security side job at the old US Steel plant while it was in it's final throes and the #5 power station was still up.

One of the cats I worked with was a victim of those thieving mongrel bastards.

He should have been sitting in his back yard with a cold beer bouncing a grandbaby on his knee. Instead the poor guy was almost 70 and had to climb stairs and shake doors and chase away crackheads because they outright stole his pension.

I can't help but think that the slime who steal from all those hard working people ought to have a bounty on their actual heads.
Daleks Veljkovic My brother-in-laws dad lost everything too. 41 years in the plant without shit to show for. The lawyers that were supposedly helping them were crooks too. Everyone. Even ole 10 ward boss Fast Eddie. Crook. What they did was criminal and they should all be locked up
Eddie Mathis I remember when every factory in this area was booming.
Carroll Mike Krois Giocondo Wisconsin Steel workers fought for many years to obtain their pensions. They created labor history.
Jo Anne B Gillette-Bailey It was all the company that bought it from Harvester.
[This confirmed what I remember that Wisconsin Steel was built to supply IH plants with steel.]
Mike Pietrusinski all of Wisconsin Steel's old buildings have been knocked down and new businesses have moved in to take their place....looks a lot better in that area these days.
Don Smith 50 inch Universal Plate Mill for me (I may have the number wrong, I think it was 50). Hard work. Worked around the clock (7-3 a week, then 3-11 a week, then 11-7 a week).
G Marie Leaner My Dad worked at Republic Steel at 116th and Burley for over 40 years and you should see the pittance my mom gets from his pension. He died from oat cell lung cancer that I am convinced was a work -related illness stemming from work in the wire mill. By the way, he was a "colored' who probably couldn't drink at a Stash's but was a union man who fought for the Stash patrons to have jobs for as long as they did.
Vince Bray Correct me if I'm wrong, but with their departure, only A Finkl remains The only steel producer in the city limits. Mind you there are a number of processors left, slitters, sheet lines etc, but no other basic mills. They recently moved from Goose Island down to the old Verson Press facility at 95th street....
Christopher Cairns Charles Nosich, land was sold for $140 million. 29 acres.
Charles Nosich I worked at Verson press, great company, in business since 1910.
A Jewish fellow came in,took it over, closed it down,got his golden parachute. On to another company he went. Verson was the last American press company.
Kari Bailey Vince Bray - Finkl was in the Clybourn Industrial Corridor - NOT goose island. Also Tempel Steel is still in Chicago, which you may know.
Vince Bray Thanks Kari, I forgot Finkl was on the "West Bank", you are right. Templ is a processor, they slit and stamp, they don't seem like they have blast furnaces here. There are still a number of processors in the city, just no one but Finkl who MAKES steel. That was the point I was trying to make. BTW: Both Finkl and Templ produce high grade steel, Finkl makes Die steel (Used in Plastics molding Dies) & Templ stamps high silicon steel used in electric motor laminations. This is product they have a hard time producing in China, thank goodness.
Victor Cercone I worked in the blooming mill in 80

NBCchicago

David Laz posted
Chicago in WWI A cannon that saw duty in World War I stands in the yard of a Chicago steel mill,

Wisconsin Steel Mills closed in 1980, 7 photos

Video of destruction of a blast furnace in Belgium.

U.S. Steel intends to close portion of Lorain operations for good Makes seamless pipe. Hurt by the oil industry collapse.

Canatal Steel USA to expand in Botetourt County "The $1.5 million project is expected to create 38 jobs."

AltoonaWorks posted
11/2016 - Overall view of Standard Steel at Burnham, PA on the Juniata Valley RR. This plant makes railroad wheels.

Michael Albanese One of the oldest companies in PA, with a history going back to 1795. They also used to make rolled rings for aerospace customers, but they decided to exit that business about 25 years ago.

SDI Starts Up New Paint Line at Mississippi Sheet Mill

Magnetation’s potential new owner planning to reopen plant

Magnetation plant has been sold

U.S. Steel to permanently shutter mills in Ohio, Texas

US steel mill capability utilization rises again, stays above 70%

Pellets aplenty for Sault steel maker

U.S. Crude Steel Production Expected to Rise in 2017

Texas Rebar Mill Sold to Japanese Steelmaker

U.S. Steel to bring back 200-plus workers, restart ore mine

Vallourec Rebounds as Oil Prices, Rig Count Rise, Good news for steelworkers in the Steel Valley!

Sharon Steel Lowelville Works "Sharon Steel Corporation's Mary furnace in Lowellville, Ohio. Photo taken by Youngstown Sheet & Tube's company photographer in 1957 due to the plant's historical significance. Originally built in 1845, the furnace and its owners proved that the region's coal could be used to smelt iron ore in a raw state, thus attracting other ironmasters to the Mahoning Valley that jump-started the region's industrial transformation."

Inside picture of BOF at Republic Steel Warren It was illegal for employees to take pictures, but since it was going to be closed and he would loose his job anyhow, he figured he had nothing to loose.
Dura-Bond to Restart Idled Tube Mill in Pennsylvania

Custom Refractory Linings Maker Expands Operation

US Steel to reopen portion of Granite City plant
US withdrawal from TTP to impact steel sector

Michael Schwiebert No surprise to me, if you read the article, the US exported more steel to the countries involved than imported from them. Worse yet, the steel involved tended to be "high value" product, which commands a higher price - allowing the US base product steel to be priced lower and more competitively with imports. So the US makers will lose market opportunities on high value product, lowering their ability to use the margins from it to "cover" the lesser/no margins of the base product, necessitating price increases on the base product - making it non competitive with imported steel and eliminating market opportunities for the domestic makers there as well.
I keep hoping that someone with an actual business sense will pull the Donald aside and tell him that pulling out of TPP and renegotiating/pulling out of NAFTA will be much more detrimental than beneficial, but his stubbornness and lack of global business sense will probably make it a lesson learned the hard way😡

U.S. Steel plans to spend $200 million more on mills Lots of small projects over the next 3-4 years.

Kloeckner Metals Flat Rolled Group Relocates Operations To University Park, Illinois

Rising Demand Prompts NLMK to Reactivate Hot-Dipped Galvanizing Line Bulldog Steel

Fabrication Begins Building Expansion

Essar Algoma boasts highest steel production in almost 30 months

Canadian Ore Producer Set to Begin Work on New Mine

Australian Labor Union Seeks Tariffs on Chinese Steel

3/1/2017 - Start-up steelmaker Big River Steel ceremoniously opened its new US$1.3 billion sheet mill in Arkansas on Wednesday A satellite image is too old to show much.

ArcelorMittal plans to lay off dozens at Steelton plant I assume this is the plant. Its a suburb of a metro area, that land would be great for riverside condos after your reroute the railroad next to PA-230.

Alamy photo of "Cleaning and repairing the clay lined ladle, that holds molten iron and steel at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania steel works. 1905."
Bill Redden Looks like a early bottom tap ladle, steel foundry or mill
Ron Spokovich They're actually lined with firebrick (show), and fire cement. They do need routinely relined!

John Abbott posted
[I do wish there was a comment indicating what this is. I assume it is a Basic Oxygen Furnace starting its pour after a "blow." My other guess would be an electric arc furnace beginning its pour.]

3/14/2017 - Stelco Inc. has submitted a reorganization plan that, if successful, would keep the business intact and preserve more than 2,100 jobs, it has announced. Dear Bedrock, please keep the Hamilton and Nanticoke steel plants in business will you? Algoma too.

3/15/2017 - The United Steelworkers union at AK Steel Corp.’s Mansfield Works in Ohio have ratified a four-year labor deal, the company has announced.

U.S. Steel to close Lorain pipe mill Lukas Irons: US Steel closing the number 6 quenching and temper mill line at its plant in Lorain Ohio. Ouch. Its tough watching this former super steel mill get hit one at at time. It just seems like the Lorain plant is getting it the worst.

Gerdau Plans Modifications to Caster at Georgia Mill

Tenaris’s mill in Calgary resumes operations following interruption Makes pipe for the oil industry. Has been idle two years.

Charter Steel Partners with KOCKS on New SBQ Mill Charter Steel will incorporate KOCKS precision sizing technology in its new special bar quality mill, which is to be built at its Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio, plant.

SCHAEFFLER AND CITIC PACIFIC SPECIAL STEEL (CPS) AGREE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Lukas Irons: "Get ready for more Chinese steel imports....too a Schaeffler Automotive Plant near you. A German supplier of auto parts."

Lehigh Valley History posted
Early 1900s view of Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, PA.
Jim Serfass Didn't look much different than this by the time it closed...

INDUSTRIAL CULTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY posted
The last integrated mill built in the United States, Burns Harbor.
[Lots of interesting comments]
Viktor Macha shared: https://www.viktormacha.com/galerie/arcelormittal-burns-harbor-indiana-297/

Lehigh Valley History posted
1889 view of the Allentown Iron Works, Allentown, PA. It was located in the 6th ward, north of Jordan Dr. and Furnace St., along the west bank of the Lehigh River.

The Rust Jungle posted a link

35th aniversary of the demolation of the ohio works
After watching his video, YouTube offered a 9:26 Big Stuff description of USS Gary Works. It seems it is circa 2014 and claims to still be the world's largest. A comment updates:

+Joe Cera - US Steel Gary works Coke plant is shut down. They shut down the coke plant in late April of 2015 and idled there Tin Plate works too.The rest of the mill is still open and pumping out steel... Check out the article.. http://www.nwitimes.com/business/steel/u-s-steel-starts-layoffs-of-up-to-workers-at/article_a2368734-c52f-5ee2-8761-2b9f03734c30.html (neat aerial photo)

On Thursday, security escorted managers from the massive integrated mill, which remains the largest in North America but which went to employing around 5,000 today from about 30,000 workers in the 1970s

Facebook contribution: slug used for switching at USS South Works

DRI Plant Still in the Works for Cliffs iron ore processing? Essar Steel Minnesota DRI plant still in the works for Cleveland Cliffs in Minnesota.
AK Steel Introduces Its Latest Advanced Steels to Automakers And its looking as if the AK Steel plant in Ashland Kentucky has an ever increasing chance of reopening sometime soon.

5/4/2017 - ArcelorMittal USA is providing the steel plate going into a 58-story New York skyscraper, the steelmaker said on Thursday. video about plate making capabilities

Birmingham Southern switcher and FS was the railroad in USS Fairfield works.

Keystone Steel & Wire Co. poured its first molten metal at its Bartonville Steel Mill just after Midnight on May 21, 1917...100 years ago! (Peoria area)

Mark Hinsdale posted four photos with the comment:

"Industrial Might"
I have always been drawn from a photographic standpoint to the sprawling industrial landscape of extreme northwest Indiana. The steel mills, refineries, and power plants point to a time when America's industrial output was unmatched, and the infrastructure to support that production was formidable. Although it is no longer what it was, it still provides a great backdrop for pictures of trains working in an environment where they look right at home. Here are four images from the Indiana Harbor area of East Chicago IN, surrounded by what was then Inland Steel, and today belongs to the much less "natural" sounding Arcelor-Mittal. June, 1998 photos by Mark Hinsdale

4, lots of comments about the Indiana Canal Harbor Bridges

Tony Dietrich posted
AK Steel, Dearborn Mi. 10am 6-14-17
[It is so nice to see a couple of blast furnaces still exist.]

Lukas Irons: AK Steel upgrading their plants in Mansfield and Middletown Ohio.
http://www.aist.org/…/ak-steel-sets-maintenance-and-project…

USS investing millions more in Gary Works "U.S. Steel announced a big turnaround in the second quarter. It is reporting a profit of $261 million, compared to a net loss of $46 million during the same period last year and a net loss of $180 million in the first quarter of this year."

Three photos of BOF operations. The share I saw has some more comments.

U.S. Steel had 13 common carrier railroads, EJ&E, B&LE and DM&IR were the "Big Three".

SteveOConnor comment on a posting about the redevelopment of the USS South Works land

Kevin Piper posted two photos with the comment:
EJ&E T-3 and 441 are about to shove coke hoppers up the blast furnace high-line on 1-25-80. If you look closely, in the distance is the 86th Street entrance to the mill. There was a bar right outside the gate where EJ&E switch crews would head for "beans." Old Style on tap flowed freely there all day.

Photos of Republic Steel Hazelton Works.

212 photos of Sparrow Point steel works, shipyard, and company town

ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor could land more shipbuilding, energy business "Indiana again led the nation in steel production last year, cranking out 27 percent of American-made steel."

Indiana leads nation in steel production

ArcelorMittal making major investments in Indiana Harbor steel mill

Map of steel plants of North America

Steel plate prices in the US slip despite mill hikes

John Deere foundary lots of comments about foundary closures

Ontario steelmaker Stelco files for IPO to pay for expansions in Hamilton, Nanticoke

Last remaining blast furnace coming down in Warren. Last of Valley blast furnaces coming down, While it still stood, A video of it falling down, Another one bites the dust It is getting cutup quickly

ATI and Tsingshan to Form Innovative Stainless Steel Joint Venture 60"-wide stainless sheet

ArcelorMittal to invest $100 million at Indiana Harbor next year

Nucor To Build Merchant Bar Mill in Bourbonnais, Illinois (some comments about why a company would invest in Illinois)

USS Gary: coke train on the high-line

56" mill at Republic Steel Warren Works, a large set of photos

Phil Vaclavik posted
Track map USS Gary’s “hot side” on the bottom.

ArcelorMittal investing $70M to modernize steel mills in Contrecoeur, Que.

ArcelorMittal laying off 125 people at Montgomery County plant

Chris Poff It's amazing what engineering can do. It baffles me too at why it's like that. But anything is possible. A few years ago I was on a project in my local it upgraded it's continuous caster , it's a world wide known steel producing company. Instead of onekettle full of molten steel, it's two kettles which sit on a turret Base. It's amazing! Thinking about the weight and having it to be able to counter act the offset while one is pouring. (source)

Tony Margis posted
Ore docks, blast furnaces & steel mills, South Chicago, Ill., International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill. Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; August 26, 1907.

Larry Grzywinski International Harvester Co./Wisconsin Steel on the left of the river. Federal Furnace/Interlake/Acme Steel on the right of the river The channel on the lower left was a never completed connection to Lake Calumet.Bob Lalich It was used as a slip for ore boats.

Dwayne Stegner commented on Tony's posting
Dennis DeBruler A good example of how postcard companies hired artists to colorize photos. When you consider people's obsession with taking "I was there" selfies, it is easy to understand why the postcard industry was so important before the Brownie camera was produced.

Arturo Gross Flickr 2001 Photo of Inland Steel (source)

Bob Lalich Flickr 1988 Photo includes Republic Steel and Interlake Steel along the Calumet River

USS to reopen Granite City facility (source)
David Jordan Scott Nauert Only the slab mill was operating, correct?
Michael Schwiebert Admittedly, Heritage skews conservative - but without a doubt the tariffs will backfire spectacularly. https://www.heritage.org/.../trumps-tariffs-would-be...
More comments consisting of Scott arguing with Michael

3/28/2018 - Republic Steel might restart a bar rolling mill at its idled Lorain, Ohio, USA, facility as soon as this spring, reports American Metal Market. (source)

David Jordan Interesting about Republic Steel's plans for its planned resumption of the Lorain mill this spring. When the partnership with ERP Iron Ore LLC wa announced last year, plans were to reactivate Lorain for pig iron production in July 2018. Recently, they moved startup to fall. Now reactivation may come early?

Took my helicopter out this morning and flew it in Chicago over the remains of Republic Steel. It seems it was south of 106th Street.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore Company operations at Sept-Iles port terminal to restart Wednesday

Steel tariffs have reopened 9 mills

US Steel To Add 300 Jobs, Restart Second Blast Furnace Plant (source)