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WEIRTON, WV - JUNE 27: The view from inside an empty crane shows large hooks that carried ladels used to form steel in the BOP Caster at the ArcelorMittal Weirton Steel Plant which sits idled on June 27, 2009 in Weirton, West Virginia. Although the steel plant in Weirton has been idled for over two years, local steel workers still hold out hope that it will eventually start back up. The Weirton plant was the first mill in the Ohio Valley to be idled and since it's closing the rest of the plants in the area have followed suit, halting almost all of the steel production in the area and leaving thousands of workers without jobs. The future is uncertain for steel towns of the Ohio Valley and other areas as demand for steel is the lowest it has been in roughly 70 years. Operating utilization at U.S. steel mills has dropped to levels not seen since the Depression. Rick Gershon/Getty Images/AFP
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Weirton, 913, UNITED STATES |
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Rick GERSHON |
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27 Iunie 2009 |
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