Here’s good news from the Iron Range. U.S. Steel’s Keewatin Taconite will resume production after nearly a year of an indefinite shutdown. Of northern Minnesota’s six taconite mining operations, KeeTac was the one that worried many insiders. Now five of six plants will be operating nearly at capacity within a few weeks. Hibbing Taconite is still idled until April 2010, however, which remains a major drag on the Iron Range economy and jobless numbers.
We on the Iron Range are almost back to where we were before the economic collapse: in a state of disorganized grasping for a modern economy that can weather downturns in the steel industry. Hooray! (Sorry to harsh the buzz).
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