Port Trivia
We are pleased to share this information about iron ore pellets with our readers. These nuggets were gleaned from the Spring 2000 edition of Cliffs News, published by Cleveland Cliffs, which, in turn, gave credit to Northshore Mining's News & Views.
Some of the choice items:
A box one foot high, wide and deep can hold more than 20,000 iron ore
pellets.
There are 360,000 pellets in one long ton.
Each pellet is worth $0.0083.
An average Great Lakes ship carries about nine billion pellets.
Strung end to end, one day's pellet production at Northshore Mining in
Silver Bay could make about 90,000 necklaces. This could develop a new
market for pellets — and save the world's oyster population.
