Successful Resolution of Arbitration with Essar Steel Algoma, Inc.

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CLEVELAND, Dec. 17, 2010 /CNW/ -- Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) today announced that the Company was successful in its previously disclosed arbitration with Essar Steel Algoma, Inc. In a binding decision by the American Arbitration Association, an arbitration panel redefined world prices for blast furnace pellets, a factor used in determining annual price increases or decreases under Cliffs' supply agreement with Essar Steel Algoma. This redefinition currently entitles Cliffs to use an increase in excess of 95% over 2009 prices for seaborne blast furnace pellets in the supply agreement's pricing formula. With today's final award, Cliffs anticipates collecting a cash payment in the near term from Essar Steel Algoma for the portion of revenue from 2010 pellet sales that were disputed in the arbitration.