COMMISSION TO HAVE ITS REPORTING ISSUER STATUS REVOKED

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TORONTO, Feb. 1 /CNW/ - Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF; Paris:
CLF), announced today that it has applied for a decision from the
securities regulatory authority for Ontario, the Ontario Securities
Commission, as principal regulator, that it is no longer a reporting
issuer in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. Cliffs
Natural Resources Inc. is not a reporting issuer in any other Canadian
jurisdiction.


If the requested decision is made by the Ontario Securities Commission,
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. will cease to be a reporting issuer in
British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec and will no longer be a
reporting issuer in any jurisdiction in Canada. Cliffs Natural
Resources Inc. will continue to file all continuous disclosure reports
required under U.S. securities laws, and will continue to deliver to its Canadian securityholders all
disclosure that it is required to deliver to U.S. resident
securityholders.


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 high and low volatile metallurgical coal. With
core values of environmental and capital stewardship, our colleagues
across the globe endeavour 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 six coal mines 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 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.




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Internet at: >www.cliffsnaturalresources.com/Investors/Pages/default.aspx?b=1041&1=1




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