Essar Steel Minnesota is developing a fully integrated, onsite, mining through steelmaking project on the Mesabi range in northern Minnesota. Essar Steel Minnesota will use all commercially proven and well established technologies. They will be the latest and most environmentally sensitive, utilizing natural gas and electricity to produce steel. Having all processes on one site allows Essar Steel Minnesota to minimize product movement and maximize energy savings. This, combined with our captive iron ore resource, will result in Essar Steel Minnesota being the low cost steel producer in North America. 

The main components of the project are:

• A captive, open-pit iron ore mine
• Onsite processing of the ore to produce high grade concentrate
• Iron pellet production facility
• Production of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI)
• Construction of a new steel manufacturing facility, including Electric Arc Furnaces, thick slab casters, thin soft-reduction slab casters and vacuum degassing/ladle treatment furnaces