Cliffs Resumes Longwall Operations at Pinnacle Mine
10/12/2011 - Cliffs Natural Resources announced the resumption of longwall operations at the company's Pinnacle Mine in West Virginia.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced the resumption of longwall operations at the company's Pinnacle Mine in West Virginia.
Cliffs suspended Pinnacle Mine's longwall operations in May of 2011 due to detected levels of carbon monoxide at the mine. The company worked closely with regulatory agencies, with the result that operations were permitted to resume at the beginning of October.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., an international mining and natural resources company, is a major global iron ore producer and a significant producer of high- and low-volatile metallurgical coal. Cliffs' strategy is to continually achieve greater scale and diversification in the mining industry through a focus on serving the world's largest and fastest growing steel markets.
The company is organized through a global commercial group responsible for sales and delivery of Cliffs’ products and a global operations group responsible for the production of the minerals the company markets. Cliffs operates iron ore and coal mines in North America and two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia. The company also has a 45% economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine in Queensland, Australia. In addition, Cliffs has a major chromite project, in the pre-feasibility stage of development, located in Ontario, Canada.
