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Tuesday, May 01, 2012  Cliffs Natural Resources is planning fewer layoffs for this year's Empire Mine maintenance

Monday, April 02, 2012  The Quincy Mine Hoist has been vandelized according to authorities in Hancock

Friday, March 23, 2012  A Cliffs Natural Resources spokesman says part of the rigging failed on one of two mobile cranes involved in the lift

Thursday, March 08, 2012  Cliffs announces a $6.7 million replacement at the Tilden Mine

Tuesday, March 06, 2012  The company raked in $6.8 billion in revenue, but here in the Upper Peninsula, there were some setbacks

Friday, January 20, 2012  Cliffs Natural Resources Empire Mine in Palmer will have an extended life

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  Four groups are appealing a judge's decision which gave the green light to Kennecott to build and operate the copper and nickel mine

Thursday, August 18, 2011  Snyder touched on a number of hot button issues, including mining in the U.P.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011  Tuesday, some Ishpeming and Negaunee residents learned how the mining industry changed the area through the eyes of Cleveland-Cliffs

Saturday, July 09, 2011  U.P. unions face a rough year with state job cuts but hope the mining industry can help with unemployment

Thursday, June 16, 2011  Those looking to dive into Ishpeming mining history can get their fill now that the Cliffs Shaft Mining Museum is open for business

Thursday, June 16, 2011  The mining company's new education center is currently under construction on the 100 block of Washington Street

Wednesday, March 02, 2011  On Tuesday, a rail car struck the bottom of the viaduct on County Road 426, causing traffic to close on that stretch of road between 18th Road and US-2/US-41

Thursday, February 24, 2011  Thomas Friggens is retiring as director of the Michigan Iron Industry Museum after 37 years of employment with the State of Michigan

Tuesday, January 18, 2011  Longtime opponents of the Kennecott Eagle Project are weighing in after the company announced that it was no longer planning on having its ore trucks use the proposed route of County Road 595