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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001225208-13-005317
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130221
FILED AS OF DATE: 20130225
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130225
REPORTING-OWNER:
OWNER DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Smith Clifford T
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001510253
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: 4
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08944
FILM NUMBER: 13640898
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 200 PUBLIC SQUARE
STREET 2: SUITE 3300
CITY: CLEVELAND
STATE: OH
ZIP: 44114
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
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doc4.xml
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2013-02-21
0000764065
CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES INC.
CLF
0001510253
Smith Clifford T
200 PUBLIC SQUARE
SUITE 3300
CLEVELAND
OH
44114-2315
1
SVP, Global Business Dev.
Common Shares
2013-02-21
4
A
0
2755.0000
26.8400
A
16738.0000
D
Common Shares
2013-02-21
4
F
0
1324.0000
26.8400
D
15414.0000
D
Common Shares
15273.0000
I
VNQDC
Reflects a payout of performance shares for the 2010-2012 performance period earned under the Issuer's 2007 Incentive Equity Plan.
Reflects the surrender of 1,017 performance shares and 307 restricted share units from the 2010-2012 performance period in payment of the related tax liability incurred by the Reporting Person as a result of the award.
Balance shown reflects 54, 199, 258 and 328 shares acquired March 1, 2012, June 1, 2012, August 31, 2012 and December 3, 2012, respectively, pursuant to the dividend reinvestment feature of the Issuer's 2005 Voluntary Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan ("VNQDC").
Held for the benefit of the Reporting Person by the VNQDC.
poa-smith.txt
/s/ Carolyn Cheverine by Power of Attorney
2013-02-25
EX-24
2
poa-smith.txt
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes
and appoints P. Kelly Tompkins, Carolyn E. Cheverine, James D. Graham, Madeline
M. 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 4th day of May, 2012.
/s/ Clifford Smith
Clifford Smith
Senior Vice President, Global Business Development