Cliffs returns to Fortune 500 listings after 20 years

It's been a while since Cliffs Natural Resources was listed on the Fortune 500, 20 years in fact. Back then, it was called Cleveland Cliffs, Inc., one of the mining companies that built America. Now, it's a diverse natural resources company, and has obviously reinvented itself enough to run with the big guys again.

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Cliffs Natural Resources has returned to the Fortune 500 list for 2011 after a more than 20-year absence.

The list is Fortune Magazine's annual ranking of the nation's largest companies by revenue. Cliffs is ranked No. 477 with an annual revenue of $4.7 billion for 2010.

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Source: The Mining Journal

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