Some good news for the mining industry. A blast furnace that’s been down for two years is being restarted. U.S. Steel announced they will be restarting one of two at Granite City Works in Illinois.

The upcoming maintenance outage at AK Steel’s Ashland Works blast furnace will not impact production at the Middletown Works blast furnace, according to AK Steel spokesman Mike Wallner. “It’s ...

AK Steel’s blast furnace in Ashland, Ky., which already unexpectedly shut down once this year due to some kind of malfunction in February, has shut down again. “AK Steel recently experienced an ...

Nelson and two other employees were working on a transformer that malfunctioned during a storm. He was attempting to shut it ...

One of AK Steel Holding Corp.’s three blast furnaces is back to full production capacity after it was shut down for repairs, the company said on Dec. 4. Fixes at Ashland Works in Kentucky lasted about ...

The aging blast furnace at the Whyalla steelworks could be permanently shut down before the steelworks transitions to a direct-reduced iron plant and electric arc furnace, placing hundreds of jobs at ...

GRANITE CITY, Ill. — The Granite City Works steel plant will restart one of its two blast furnaces soon, according to plant owner United States Steel, a move that will likely bring hundreds of jobs ...

GRANITE CITY — The restarting of the “B” blast furnace at U.S. Steel/Granite City Works means 400 employees hired, including some laid off from Alton Steel Inc. in January. On Monday, U.S. Steel ...