Mining at ArcelorMittal

Our Group is known as the largest steel company in the world, but did you know that we are also one of the biggest companies in the mining sector? Over 40,000 colleagues work in our mines, across 4 continents.

The steel and mining business are closely intertwined, as steelmaking requires basic raw material inputs, especially of iron and coal. In order to supply our plants with these raw materials, our Group has mines in countries such as Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the US, Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, among others.

We recently had the opportunity to interview the Head of our Mining activities, Peter Kukielski, and asked him about pride, a word that means a lot to our mining colleagues.

“Oh, there is a huge amount of pride!” he told us. “Mining is perhaps one of the most essential activities that occurs on this planet, because everything that you buy, eat, drink, see or touch is either mined or grown. Nothing else: either agriculture or mining. Everything else is processing. So it is a fundamental, very earthy thing, and all of us who work in this space are proud of what we do.”