Articles:
Minnesota Power looks to increase Pollution
Great Lakes Directory
March 12, 2002

Mt. Iron coal-gas plant site gets a first OK, but councilors want data, costs, feedback before final go-ahead
Mesabi Daily News
February 8, 2005

Minnesota Puts its Weight behing Coal Gasification
Output costs will be further reduced by the advantages of the project site. The Mesaba IGCC plant would be built on a former LTV Mining site near Hoyt Lakes, Minn. The site has two rail lines and a dedicated port on Lake Superior, providing attractive fuel transportation options for the facility. Low-cost high-sulfur Eastern coal, for example, could be backhauled to the plant on empty ore boats and unit trains that move taconite out of the region. The gasification process removes sulfur in a pure, marketable form, making it possible to use lower cost, high-sulfur coal.