Each time the cage went up the shaft it could be carrying 1 ton of high grade iron ore or 8 miners.The cage came from the last mine to be worked, Moorbank, Hodbarrow. It was used by miners to ...

Cleveland-Cliffs said it would temporarily idle two of its Iron Range mines and taconite pellet plants and lay off 630 ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Rio Tinto will spend $US1.8 billion ($2.83 billion) over the next two years building a new iron ...

(Reuters) -Rio Tinto said on Thursday it will invest $1.8 billion to develop its Brockman Syncline 1 iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The world's largest iron ore ...