皇冠体育2016年3月14日/美通社/——Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.（纽约证券交易所代码：CLF）今天宣布，将于2016年5月15日之前重启其位于明尼苏达州北岸采矿业务的铁矿石球团生产。该公司采取这一行动是基于其国内客户对铁矿石球团的需求，并与此前宣布的今年生产计划保持一致。

Cliffs的Northshore Mining铁矿石业务由位于明尼苏达州的一座矿山和一个塔克石颗粒处理设施组成。该公司拥有约540名员工。Cliffs在明尼苏达州的Hibbing Taconite矿以及密歇根州的Tilden和Empire矿也在正常运营。Cliffs在明尼苏达州的United Taconite业务目前处于闲置状态。

Cliffs董事长、总裁兼首席执行官Lourenco Goncalves表示：“自去年以来，皇冠体育官网遭遇的不公平贸易钢铁雪崩对我们客户的生产水平产生了负面影响，因此也影响了我们。目前，随着贸易案件接近最后阶段和初步关税的宣布，不公平贸易的钢铁数量开始下降。随着我们客户的订单增加，他们对颗粒的需求接近正常水平，我们很高兴地宣布，我们将让Northshore的敬业员工重返工作岗位。”Goncalves先生补充说：“2015年，Cliffs在Northshore Mining开发了一种新产品，dr级颗粒用作DRI生产的原料。随着我们在5月份重新启动Northshore的运营，我们还将恢复生产运往EAF客户的dr级颗粒。”

根据Cliffs 2016年全年预期的USIO产量为1600万吨，该公司将维持之前对2016年每吨现金生产成本的预期，即每吨50至55美元，其销售商品的现金成本预期为每吨55至60美元。

关于Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.皇冠体育斯自然资源公司是皇冠体育官网领先的矿业和自然资源公司。该公司是北美钢铁行业铁矿石球团的主要供应商，其矿山和球团厂位于密歇根州和明尼苏达州。皇冠体育斯还在西澳大利亚经营着一个铁矿石开采综合体。在安全、社会、环境和资本管理的核心价值观的推动下，皇冠体育斯的员工努力为所有利益相关者提供运营和财务透明度。

Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. As a general matter, forward-looking statements relate to anticipated trends and expectations rather than historical matters. Forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties and factors relating to Cliffs' operations and business environment that are difficult to predict and may be beyond our control. Such uncertainties and factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no ongoing obligation, other than that imposed by law, to update these statements. Uncertainties and risk factors that could affect Cliffs' future performance and cause results to differ from the forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to: trends affecting our financial condition; results of operations or future prospects, particularly the continued volatility of iron ore prices; availability of capital and our ability to maintain adequate liquidity, in particular considering borrowing base reductions from the sale of non-core assets such as North American Coal; our level of indebtedness could limit cash flow available to fund working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes or ongoing needs of our business, which could prevent us from fulfilling our debt obligations; continued weaknesses in global economic conditions, including downward pressure on prices caused by oversupply or imported products, including the impact of any reduced barriers to trade, recently filed and forthcoming trade cases, reduced market demand and any change to the economic growth rate in China; our ability to reach agreement with our iron ore customers regarding any modifications to sales contract provisions, renewals or new arrangements; uncertainty relating to restructurings in the steel industry and/or affecting the steel industry; our ability to maintain appropriate relations with unions and employees and enter into or renew collective bargaining agreements on satisfactory terms; the impact of our customers reducing their steel production or using other methods to produce steel; our ability to successfully execute an exit option for our Canadian Entities that minimizes the cash outflows and associated liabilities of such entities, including the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) process; our ability to successfully identify and consummate any strategic investments and complete planned divestitures; our ability to successfully diversify our product mix and add new customers beyond our traditional blast furnace clientele; the outcome of any contractual disputes with our customers, joint venture partners or significant energy, material or service providers or any other litigation or arbitration; the ability of our customers and joint venture partners to meet their obligations to us on a timely basis or at all; the impact of price-adjustment factors on our sales contracts; changes in sales volume or mix; our actual levels of capital spending; our actual economic iron ore reserves or reductions in current mineral estimates, including whether any mineralized material qualifies as a reserve; events or circumstances that could impair or adversely impact the viability of a mine and the carrying value of associated assets, as well as any resulting impairment charges; the results of prefeasibility and feasibility studies in relation to projects; impacts of existing and increasing governmental laws and regulation and related costs and liabilities, including failure to receive or maintain required operating and environmental permits, approvals, modifications or other authorization of, or from, any governmental or regulatory entity and costs related to implementing improvements to ensure compliance with regulatory changes; our ability to cost-effectively achieve planned production rates or levels; uncertainties associated with natural disasters, weather conditions, unanticipated geological conditions, supply or price of energy, equipment failures and other unexpected events; adverse changes in currency values, currency exchange rates, interest rates and tax laws; risks related to international operations; availability of capital equipment and component parts; the potential existence of significant deficiencies or material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting; problems or uncertainties with productivity, tons mined, transportation, mine-closure obligations or costs, environmental liabilities, employee-benefit costs and other risks of the mining industry; and the risk factors identified in Part I - Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015. The information contained herein speaks as of the date of this release and may be superseded by subsequent events. Except as may be required by applicable securities laws, we do not undertake any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements contained in this release.

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