0001209191-11-029723.txt : 20110519 0001209191-11-029723.hdr.sgml : 20110519 20110519161243 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-11-029723 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110517 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110519 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110519 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000764065 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: METAL MINING [1000] IRS NUMBER: 341464672 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 PUBLIC SQUARE STREET 2: STE. 3300 CITY: CLEVELAND STATE: OH ZIP: 44114-2315 BUSINESS PHONE: 216-694-5700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 PUBLIC SQUARE STREET 2: STE. 3300 CITY: CLEVELAND STATE: OH ZIP: 44114-2315 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CLEVELAND CLIFFS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MCALLISTER FRANCIS R CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001095349 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08944 FILM NUMBER: 11858052 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: STILLWATER MINING COMPANY STREET 2: 1321 DISCOVERY DRIVE CITY: BILLINGS STATE: MT ZIP: 59102 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0303 4 2011-05-17 0 0000764065 CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES INC. CLF 0001095349 MCALLISTER FRANCIS R STILLWATER MINING COMPANY 536 EAST PIKE AVENUE COLUMBUS MT 59019 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 2011-05-17 4 A 0 925 0.00 A 10819.6795 D Stock Units Common Shares 11011.0024 11011.0024 D Reflects the number of restricted shares granted to the Reporting Person as the Annual Equity Grant on May 17, 2011, the date of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders pursuant to the Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. Nonemployee Directors' Compensation Plan (the "Plan"). The Board of Directors of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. declared a dividend of $0.14 per share, payable to all holders of record as of February 15, 2011 of common stock payable on March 1, 2011. The amount shown reflects 7.3998 shares credited to the Reporting Person pursuant to the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan. The amount also reflects 6.9508 deferred dividend reinvestment shares acquired from a dividend payment received from restricted shares pursuant to the Plan. Convertible into Common Shares on a 1-for-1 basis. Reflects number of Common Shares of underlying deferred compensation credited to the account of the Reporting Person pursuant to the Plan. Each Stock Unit is generally distributable following termination of service as a Director. The total includes dividend reinvestment pursuant to the Plan. The number of deferred dividend reinvestment equivalent shares earned in the Plan is calculated using the closing market price at the end of each quarter for shares held in the Plan. The reporting person was credited with 15.6629 dividend reinvestment shares on March 31, 2011. /s/ Gina K. Gunning by Power of Attorney 2011-05-19 EX-24.4_378884 2 poa.txt POA DOCUMENT LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints P. Kelly Tompkins, Gina K. Gunning, James D. Graham, Madeline Costanzo, and Keirsten Riedel and each of them, as the true and lawful attorney or attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution and revocation, for the undersigned and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, to execute, on behalf of the undersigned any and all statements or reports considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time ("Exchange Act") with respect to the beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock, par value $.125 per share, of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. ("Company"), including, without limitation, all initial statements of beneficial ownership on Form 3; all statements of changes in beneficial ownership on Form 4; all annual statements of beneficial ownership on Form 5; and all notices of proposed sale of securities on Form 144; and any and all other documents that may be required, from time to time, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to execute any and all amendments or supplements to any such statements or forms, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorney or attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. The undersigned acknowledges that neither the Company nor such attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act. This Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the Exchange Act. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect as long as the undersigned is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16 with respect to the undersigned's holdings and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 8th day of March, 2011. /s/ Francis R. McAllister Francis R. McAllister Director