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CLEVELAND (Business Wire) -- Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF)
today said it intends to announce unaudited fourth-quarter 2009 results
after the U.S.-market close Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010.


The Company invites interested parties to listen to a live broadcast of
a conference call with securities analysts and institutional investors
to discuss the results.


When:


Thursday, Feb. 18, at 10 a.m. ET



Hosts:


Joseph A. Carrabba, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Laurie Brlas, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Steven R. Baisden, Director, Investor Relations and Corporate
Communications



Web Address:


http://www.cliffsnaturalresources.com



If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will
be archived at
please click on the link below:http://www.cpg-llc.com/clearsite/clf/emailoptin.html


ABOUT CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES INC.Cliffs Natural Resources
Inc. is an international mining and natural resources company. A member
of the S&P 500 Index, we are the largest producer of iron ore pellets in
North America, a major supplier of direct-shipping lump and fines iron
ore out of Australia and a significant producer of metallurgical coal.
With core values of environmental and capital stewardship, our
colleagues across the globe endeavor to provide all stakeholders
operating and financial transparency as embodied in the Global Reporting
Initiative (GRI) framework. Our Company is organized through three
geographic business units:




The North American business unit is comprised of six iron ore mines
owned or managed in Michigan, Minnesota and Canada and two coking coal
mining complexes located in West Virginia and Alabama. The Asia Pacific
business unit is comprised of two iron ore mining complexes in Western
Australia and a 45% economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine
in Queensland, Australia. The Latin American business unit includes a
30% interest in the Amapa Project, an iron ore project in the state of
Amapa in Brazil.




Other projects under development include a biomass fuel production plant
in Michigan and Ring of Fire chromite properties in Ontario, Canada.
Over recent years, Cliffs has been executing a strategy designed to
achieve scale in the mining industry and focused on serving the world's
largest and fastest growing steel markets.