(Artist's concept of the new Mesabi Metallics steel plant to be built in Minnesota)
Posted on 09/30/2026 7:54:16 PM PDT by rlmorel
(Artist's concept of the new Mesabi Metallics steel plant to be built in Minnesota)
Monday’s news cycle brought an exciting story for both the manufacturing industry and America’s heartland: Mesabi Metallics has announced a new $15-billion steel mill to be built in Iowa, along the Mississippi River. With an expectation of being up and running by 2030, the mill will be the largest ever in the United States, being budgeted to reach approximately 10 percent of current American steel production within a couple years of startup. The statistics shared at the announcement anticipate five or six thousand construction jobs for its construction in Iowa; about 1,750 permanent employees at the plant; and a related influx of jobs and activity at the firm’s iron mines in northeast Minnesota, which will supply the lion’s share of raw materials for this state-of-the-art facility.
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We have reached the point where we cannot manufacture key products like ships, pharmaceuticals, transformers, and many electrical components just to give a few examples. Not only are these things necessary for our industrial base, but the inability to produce these at scale is a major national security issue.
One of the key components of President Trump's Tariff policy is the re-shoring of industry. According to the White House and the Department of Commerce, we have at this time pledges of $9.5 Trillion dollars of investment to build factories, shipyards, and various industrial plants across this country to produce American made good, to provide jobs to build the infrastructure and begin rebuilding American Industry which will provide jobs for millions of Americans.
This plant is just one example. Another example is the Hitachi plant being built in Virginia. We have to import around 80% of our larger power transformers (critical for the bulk power grid/transmission) for our electrical grid from...Mexico, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, and even Europe. We are in the process of building new plants for this key infrastructure as we gear up for beefing up the electrical grid.
This is all due to the Trump Tariffs and Republicans who have supported him on this effort, against many in and out of his party, and the Media in general.
I see people on this very forum who want to continue onward using the playbook that has been used for the last 80 years, and which has led us to being $40 Trillion in Debt, with the debt increasing by over $1 Trillion every 90 days, and almost $1 Trillion a year being spent annually just to service the interest on our debt.
What is so hard to understand about the fact that we are broke, we are$4 Trillion in Debt, with the debt increasing by $1 Trillion every 90 days, and over $1 Trillion being spent annually just to service the interest on our debt, and that this situation is not sustainable?
All those precious, hard earned dollars in our investments are going to evaporate if we do not bring industry back into our country, establish fair trade, and address our enormous government bloat which not only hamstrings our economy with the salaries of unneeded workers who have long supported government as a jobs program, the regulations imposed by such a large parasitic entity are choking our ability to maintain an industrial base.
And saying that if we don't address that will result in ALL of our investments going belly up (and, our nation, and us with it) is not hyperbole.
I challenge anyone to argue that being $4 Trillion in Debt, with the debt increasing by $1 Trillion every 90 days, and over $1 Trillion being spent annually just to service the interest on our debt will NOT destroy this nation, our savings, and us with it.
To Americans out there, answer this: Do you want to preserve your current savings at the cost of losing this nation where you will lose those savings anyway, or are you going to support Trump and his efforts to begin to slow our headlong rush towards national oblivion?
Anyone who thinks saving this nation is going to be easy and painless does not understand the hole we are in, and how time and compound interest are conspiring to bear down on us to put an end to this nation we love.
To state this baldly is not hyperbole or hysteria. We need to make a stand, and we have run out of time to bicker.
This new $15 Billion dollar state of the art, the largest steel plant in American history is the fruit that the tariffs are going to begin to bear.
We need to keep this in mind when discussing this with people who don't want to vote for candidates that will support President Trump and his agenda.
Awaiting the flood of lawsuits by Democrat-aligned activists.
Also, why are foreign countries investing here while American corporations continue to seek the Chinese slave labor?
Are there no editors/proofreaders anymore?
“(Artist’s concept of the new Mesabi Metallics steel plant
to be built in Minnesota)”
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“a new $15-billion steel mill to be built in Iowa,
along the Mississippi River”
Obviously some confusion as the Mesabi Range (and the mines) are in Minnesota, while the plant is in Iowa. Plus - it is all fly over country.
I guess Iowa offered them a better deal than Minnesota did. Although I guess whether it is the raw materials or finished steel, it all needs to get shipped off somewhere. Although I would think it easier to ship 10,000 pounds of steel than the 100,000 pounds of ore.
Okay, I looked it up. Surprisingly to me it doesn’t take much ore to make the steel. 13 pounds of ore to make 10 pounds of steel!:
AI Overview
You need about 13 pounds of iron ore to make 10 pounds of steel.
Michigan State University
Steel Production Details
The Ratio: Modern industrial steelmaking typically requires roughly 1.3 pounds of iron ore for every 1 pound of finished steel or pig iron produced.
Michigan State University
Other Ingredients: Alongside iron ore, making a batch of steel requires additional materials like coke (about 0.5 pounds per pound of steel) and limestone or flux (a few hundred pounds per ton) to strip away impurities.
Michigan State University
Scrap Metal: Modern steel mills also mix in recycled scrap steel, which changes the exact raw ore ratio depending on the specific recycling rate at the plant.
Hoping that this plant will hire ONLY verified United States citizens...
Not sure how many of those remain in Minesotadishu...
Call me racist but I don't want to import people from low trust countries like India. With a Civilization over a thousand years old and the British trying to upgrade their society for centuries they still are not a place worth imitation.
Your goof reminded me of the story where the county surveyor knocked on the door of the Iowa farm house to inform the widow that the survey just found out an error, and that her house was actually in Minnesota.
She didn’t see how that could be and asked them to double check it.
They came back the following week to survey, and when they were done went back to the farm house to inform her that they did mess up, and that her home was indeed in Iowa.
“Oh thank heavens! I don’t know if I could survive a Minnesota winter!”
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