1.  Name: 
	Mesabi Nugget LLC, Eire Nugget Plant, 

2. Location: 
	Hoyt Lakes Mining Area, Hoyt Lakes, St. Louise County, MN 55750

3. Distance to border: 
	approximately 50 miles

4.  Type/Size of Facility: 
	The Mesabi Nugget facility will be the first iron full-scale 
	iron nugget plant to be built.  The raw materials for the process 
	will consist of various coals, fluxes , and binders, as well as 
	iron ore concentrate from Silver Bay, Minnesota.  The coals 
	and fluxes will be pulverized on-site, mixed with binders and 
	iron ore and fed into a rotary hearth furnace.  The furnace will 
	convert the ore into iron nuggets and slag. The iron nugget will 
	then be loaded onto railcars.  The facility will have the capacity 
	to produce approximately 600,00 tons of iron nuggets per year.

5. Source of Emissions:  
	Sources of emissions include a rotary hearth furnace (RHF), 
	green ball dryers, coal and flux pulverizer/dryers, material 
	handling and storage, a backup generator, and cooling towers.

6. Primary Type of Fuel: 
	coal, natural gas

7. Type/Quanity of Emissions:

Total Facility Potential to Emit Summary

Pollutant, tons per year	Total Facility Limited Potential Emissions
PM					514
PM10					514
SO2					417
NOx					954
CO					449
VOCs					170
Lead					4.2
Fluorides				108
Sulfuric Acid Mist			112
Single HAP (Manganese compounds)	63
All HAPs				210

8. Emission Controls: 
	Wet scrubber, low-NOx burners, staged combustion, SNCR 
	(pilot project only to determine feasibility)

9. Date of Permit Application:   
	Permit was public noticed 5/16/05. 

10. Stack Height/diameter: 
	RHF H=60 meters d=4.23 meters, Pulverizer H=40 meters, d=1.98 meters

11. Permitting Authority Contact: 
	Richard Cordes  
	Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
	520 Lafayette Road North
	St. Paul, MN 55155-4194
	(651) 296-8157