The Gales of November” takes a look back at the SS Edmund Fitzgerald nearly 50 years after its sinking. The 729-foot Great ...

Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - Dozens of ships carrying coal and iron ore to China are stuck outside ports waiting to unload, according to shipping data, with traders saying harbor authorities are ...

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) has stockpiled 2 million metric tons of high-grade iron ore at its giant Simandou project in Guinea for an inaugural shipment in mid-November, which is expected to head to China, ...

Split Rock Lighthouse and the Minnesota Historical Society will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald ...

Nov. 10, 2025, will mark 50 years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing its 29 crew members. The large freighter was set to deliver more than 27,000 tons of iron ore to Detroit ...

Rio Tinto said its iron-ore shipments were flat and upgraded its annual production forecast for aluminum-rich bauxite.

Iron ore may not shine as brightly as gold, but it is fundamental to the modern economy. As the essential ingredient in steel, its price fluctuations reflect the cycles of global construction, ...

American iron ore powers our nation's economy. It starts in the mines of the Upper Midwest and travels across Lake Superior on thousand-foot freighters, passing through the Soo Locks in Sault Ste.