9/28/2012

Essar Steel Minnesota has taken delivery of an Atlas Copco Pit Viper 351 drill – the first piece of new mining equipment to arrive at the Nashwauk project site.

The drill was assembled as parts arrived from the factory during the last week. It is now fully assembled and undergoing field testing.

“We are very excited to begin field testing our new production drill. Operator

training has already begun, and we will begin using the drill for mining later this year, Chief Mine Engineer William Everett said in a news release. "The deployment of this state of the art drill marks a new era in drilling productivity on the Iron Range”

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