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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room

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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (162276)1/11/2012 11:00:21 AM
From: Dennis Roth3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 206209
 
Gas Boom Has Youngstown Making Steel Again
By Mark Niquette and Romy Varghese
Jan 10, 2012 12:00 AM ET
bloomberg.com

Thirty-four years after Black Monday, the day Youngstown Sheet & Tube announced shutdowns marking the end of the Ohio city’s steel era, a $650 million mill is coming to life thanks to the natural-gas drilling boom.

The factory for Vallourec SA (VK)’s V&M Star will have 350 workers and produce seamless pipes used in hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. It’s part of a development that an oil and gas industry study calculates will mean more than 200,000 jobs and $22 billion in economic output in Ohio by 2015 -- and which has neighboring states looking to get in on the action.
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