Burgum said the pig iron plant could lead to a $5 billion or $6 billion steel plant and be a “game-changer for central North Dakota.” “There are so many wins stacked up on this one,” he said.

Burgum said the pig iron plant could lead to a $5 billion or $6 billion steel plant and be a “game-changer for central North Dakota.” “There are so many wins stacked up on this one,” he said.

Multi-million-dollar investment at Gary Works to support domestic supply chain Iron ore from U. S. Steel’s Minnesota Ore Operations will feed caster Caster will produce 500,000 tons of pig iron ...

The company’s Granite City, Ill., plant would supply the metal to a new mill in Arkansas; pig iron is in shorter supply since the Ukraine invasion.

Elsewhere in the presentation, the company refers to its effort to supply “up to 500,000 tons annually to Big River Steel of internally sourced pig iron.” In the scrap alternatives category, U.S.

Pig iron, a raw form of the metal used in the production of steel, has grown scarce in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, industry executives said.