Makes sense. I know when I saw the place a dozen or more years ago, they had RR access, so they may get scrap from a fairly broad geographical area.
Its interesting how random sampling across the country can play out. A project I worked on for about a decade dealt with understanding U.S. land use and land cover and we did so by a regional geographical framework that came from another agency and then we selected a range of "sample blocks" randomly from these regions. The sample blocks were about 10 x 10 kilometers which is about 6 x 6 miles. We tried to visit each of these samples (there were about 2,800 of them) to take ground photos and just get a "feel" for the place to back up what we were seeing in the satellite imagery. Our first steel "mini-mill" that was captured in these random blocks was the Norfolk, NB one but we caught or at least saw several more across the country. I was along on the "Eastern Corn Belt Plains" field trip (primarily west-central Ohio, eastern and central Indiana) and we saw 3 mini-mills. At least one if not two of them were NuCor owned. Several had much larger footprint of space than the Norfolk plant. I'll see if I can find some of those pixs and post them.
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