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Minorca Mine, St Louis County, Minnesota: 448 MSHA citations

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Minorca Mine is an active iron ore surface mine in St Louis County, Minnesota, operated by Cleveland-Cliffs Minorca Mine Inc. with 340 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 2102449). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 448 citations and orders there with $462,631 in proposed penalties, and 18 accident reports were filed there, with 18 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

2102449

Status

Active since June 11, 1992

Main commodity

Iron ore

Mine type

Surface

County

St Louis County, Minnesota

Nearest town

Virginia

Operator

Cleveland-Cliffs Minorca Mine Inc.

Parent company

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc

Employees

340

MSHA field office

Hibbing MN Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

448

Significant and substantial

69 (15.4%)

Closure orders

5

High negligence or reckless

4

Proposed penalties

$462,631

Amount paid so far

$446,045

Inspections

40

Inspector hours on site

1,164

Citations per inspection

11.20 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

18

Injury and illness cases

18

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

September 29, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

14 ($4,672 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Standards cited most at Minorca Mine

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Injury and illness cases at Minorca Mine

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

What the accident reports at Minorca Mine describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Equipment named in accident reports at Minorca Mine

Other open mines in St Louis County, Minnesota

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.