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<h2>3.5.    USA</h2> Once the banks of the Monongahela and Ohio River in Pennsylvania were seamed with steel mills. Although many of them were already closed when I visited the area in 1992, I could still find more than 50 blast furnaces within a single week! <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="OHOYoung01"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.OHOYoung01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="OHOYoung01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Ohio</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Youngstown </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-05-24</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="OHOYoung02"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.OHOYoung02_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="OHOYoung02_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Ohio</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Youngstown </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-05-24</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="PAPittDuq01"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.PAPittDuq01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="PAPittDuq01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pittsburgh, Duquesne </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-05-21</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> The following relatively small mills were still active. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="OHOMingoJ01"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.OHOMingoJ01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="OHOMingoJ01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Ohio</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mingo Junction </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-05-26</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="OHOSteub01"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.OHOSteub01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="OHOSteub01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Ohio</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Steubenville </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-05-25</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="PAMoness"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.PAMoness_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="PAMoness_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Monessen </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> This is one of the few active steel mills in the area, producing sheet-metal for cans. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="WVWeirton01"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.WVWeirton01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="WVWeirton01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Weirton Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, West Virginia</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Weirton </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-05-25</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> Bethlehem Steel Works, what a great name! This used to be one of the world's largest steel mills, and I was lucky enough to see it still in operation. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="PABethl01"></a><a href="Steelworks.USA.PABethl01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="PABethl01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Bethlehem Steel Works</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>USA, Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bethlehem </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br>