DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) — Gov. Kim Reynolds worked on it, President Donald Trump announced it, Iowa legislators approved it, but there are still details the public does not yet know about a proposed $15 billion steel plant in Lee County.
The Essar Group, an Indian-owned company that has a Minnesota subsidiary named Mesabi Metallics, wants to open the plant to produce steel with iron ore mined at its Minnesota facility.
President Trump held a news conference Monday to announce the project.
Rail lines and Mississippi River barges would be part of the transportation and
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