CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES INC. $500,000,000 3.95% Senior Notes due 2018 Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • December 13th, 2012 • Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. • Metal mining • New York
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), the respective amounts set forth in Schedule 1 of an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000 of the Company’s 3.95% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of March 17, 2010 (the “Base Indenture”) between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a sixth supplemental indenture to be dated as of December 13, 2012 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee.
