Amid shale boom, steel makers look at expanded investment

UPDATED 6:57 AM EST, January 2, 2013
Driven by a surge in natural gas production through shale drilling, foreign and domestic steel makers are looking to build new factories that would use gas to purify iron ore, Bloomberg reports.
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