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April 27, 2017
Essar Steel Minnesota Goes to Chippewa Capital in Auction
Written by Sandy Williams
Essar Steel Minnesota was awarded to billionaire Tom Clarke for $550 million at an auction on Wednesday. Clarke’s group Chippewa Capital Partners, which previously purchased Magnetation, plans to merge Essar Steel Minnesota, now called Mesabi Metallics, with Magnetation and finish the $1.9 taconite pellet plant at the Essar site.
Clarke told the Star Tribune that Chippewa Capital plans to complete construction of the plant in 18 to 24 months and will build a DRI plant in Nashwauk within 33 months.


