Minnesota’s newest state park has ties to state’s iron mining industry The Iron Mining Association of Minnesota (IMA) celebrates the ribbon cutting of Minnesota’s newest state park, the Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park. The state park, combined with the Soudan Underground Mine, covers more than 10 miles of undeveloped lakeshore on Lake Vermilion. The park…
IMA disappointed by Governor’s veto of compromise wild rice legislation The Iron Mining Association of Minnesota (IMA) thanks the 2018 Minnesota Legislature for its bipartisan work to pass legislation addressing the state’s obsolete wild rice sulfate standard. The association is extremely disappointed by Governor Mark Dayton’s veto of the final legislation which was revised specifically to…
IMA supports revised wild rice legislation, creating diverse work group to address the issue The Iron Mining Association of Minnesota (IMA), which represents the 15,000 Minnesotans whose jobs are supported by Minnesota’s iron mining industry, supports wild rice legislation that passed both the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate with bipartisan support yesterday. The legislation, House…
IMA expresses gratitude to legislators following passage of wild rice bill The Iron Mining Association of Minnesota (IMA) extends its gratitude to the legislative authors and supporters of wild rice legislation that passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support this month. The legislation will eliminate the 10mg/L wild rice standard and provide funding so that management…
IMA applauds MPCA’s withdrawal of wild rice proposal The Iron Mining Association (IMA) is pleased that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has announced that it will withdraw its proposed wild rice rule from the rule making process. This is an important step in the right direction towards recognizing serious flaws with the rule and…
Fears over steel and aluminum tariffs are overblown Listening to the media elite or to Wall Street’s free-trade cheerleaders, one gets the impression that the sky must be falling. Pundits have wasted little time in deriding President Trump’s recent decision to protect national security by imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. They warn of…
Commercial shipping season begins at Duluth-Superior Port Star Tribune Minnesota celebrated the start of the 2018 commercial shipping season this week by opening the Port of Duluth-Superior to cargo ships that will deliver iron ore to customers along the Great Lakes, port and mining officials announced Wednesday. Duluth Seaway Port-Authority officials said the five ships departing the harbor will…
IMA statement on President Trump signing steel tariffs On behalf of the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota (IMA), President Kelsey Johnson applauds President Donald Trump’s leadership and decision to sign orders on steel and aluminum tariffs today. “This is a great day for America’s iron mining industry, the domestic steel industry, and the workers, families,…
Iron Mining Association donates to food shelves Members of the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota (IMA), a trade association representing Minnesota’s iron mining industry and its supporters, raised $3,000 to donate to local food shelves this month during the association’s annual Funspiel curling event. Twenty-eight local businesses contributed $100 or more to this fundraiser, including:…
Tariffs ‘absolutely will’ bring back jobs to America: Steel CEO CNBC Tim Timken of TimkenSteel Corporation said President Donald Trump‘s proposed steel tariffs “absolutely will” bring back jobs to the U.S. In the steel company’s Canton, Ohio, facilities, only two people work per shift. The rest of the company, which manufactures special bar quality steel in five U.S. locations, is…