Minnesota Steel stats
The project would:
* Be the nation's first steelmaking facility to produce steel slabs.
* Become Minnesota's biggest industrial project.
* Require 2,000 construction workers.
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* Employ 700 full-time employees at wages of about $65,000 per year and an annual total payroll of about $60 million.
* Create an estimated 2,100 spinoff jobs.
* Have an annual economic impact on the region and state of more than $600 million.
