Mingo Junction Steel Works, Ohio

Mingo Junction, and the Steubenville Works, a mile north of it, were the largest of a few steel production sites that operated for years as Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. Starting with a small iron plant here in 1872, Mingo Junction grew to produce more than 1.3 million tons of new steel a year. RG Steel acquired this facility in 2010. After RG Steel announced its bankruptcy, the Mingo Junction plant was sold at auction, in August 2012, for $20 million. Its new owners, the Frontier Industrial Corporation of Buffalo, New York, demolishes industrial sites and sells their scrap. The three largest steel mills on this eight mile stretch of the Ohio, Weirton, Steubenville, and now this one, where the classic American film The Deer Hunter was shot, are now closed.

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