0001193125-08-162543 Sample Contracts

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Registration Rights Agreement • July 31st, 2008 • Cleveland Cliffs Inc • Metal mining • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Registration Rights Agreement
• Filed
  July 31st, 2008
• Company
  Cleveland Cliffs Inc
• Industry
  Metal mining
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of July 11, 2008, by and among Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), and United Mining Co., Ltd., a California corporation (“United Mining”).

Term Sheet for Amendment and Extension of the Amended and Restated Pellet Sale and Purchase Agreement (“Term Sheet”) April 29, 2008

Amendment and Extension of the Amended and Restated Pellet Sale and Purchase Agreement • July 31st, 2008 • Cleveland Cliffs Inc • Metal mining

• Contract Type
  Amendment and Extension of the Amended and Restated Pellet Sale and Purchase Agreement
• Filed
  July 31st, 2008
• Company
  Cleveland Cliffs Inc
• Industry
  Metal mining

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC UNDER THE

Participant Grant and Agreement • July 31st, 2008 • Cleveland Cliffs Inc • Metal mining • Ohio

• Contract Type
  Participant Grant and Agreement
• Filed
  July 31st, 2008
• Company
  Cleveland Cliffs Inc
• Industry
  Metal mining
• Jurisdiction
  Ohio

WHEREAS, on March 13, 2007 the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. an Ohio corporation (“Company”) (the term “Company” as used herein shall also include the Company’s consolidated Subsidiaries) approved the 2007 Incentive Equity Plan (“Plan”) of the Company and the shareholders of the Company approved the Plan on July 27, 2007; and

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Pellet Sale and Purchase Agreement • July 31st, 2008 • Cleveland Cliffs Inc • Metal mining

• Contract Type
  Pellet Sale and Purchase Agreement
• Filed
  July 31st, 2008
• Company
  Cleveland Cliffs Inc
• Industry
  Metal mining

PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT

Purchase and Sale Agreement • July 31st, 2008 • Cleveland Cliffs Inc • Metal mining • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Purchase and Sale Agreement
• Filed
  July 31st, 2008
• Company
  Cleveland Cliffs Inc
• Industry
  Metal mining
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

This Purchase and Sale Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made this 11th day of July, 2008, by and among Cliffs UTAC Holding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Cliffs Sub”), Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, an Ohio corporation and the indirect parent of Cliffs Sub (“Parent”), United Mining Co., Ltd., a California corporation (the “Seller”), and Laiwu Steel Group Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“Laiwu Parent”). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not defined herein shall have the respective meanings given to such terms in the Limited Liability Company Agreement of United Taconite LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), dated as of December 1, 2003, as amended effective as of January 1, 2005 (the “Operating Agreement”).