Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers and
directors of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, an Ohio corporation ("the Company"), hereby
constitutes and appoints John S. Brinzo, Cynthia B. Bezik and John E. Lenhard,
and each of them, as true and lawful attorney or attorneys-in-fact for the
undersigned, with full power of substitution and revocation, for him or her and
in his or her name, place and stead, to sign on his or her behalf as an officer
or director of the Company a Registration Statement or Registration Statements
on Form S-8 pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 concerning certain Common
Shares of the Company to be offered in connection with the Company's Nonemployee
Directors' Compensation Plan (As Amended through May 8, 2001), and to sign any
and all amendments or post-effective amendments to such Registration
Statement(s), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission
or any state regulatory authority, granting unto said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do 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 they might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original with respect to the person executing it.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of the
27th day of June, 2001.

/s/ J. S. Brinzo /s/ L. L. Kanuk
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J. S. Brinzo L. L. Kanuk
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Director
and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ C. B. Bezik /s/ F. R. McAllister
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C. B. Bezik F. R. McAllister
Senior Vice President-Finance Director
(Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ R. J. Leroux /s/ J. C. Morley
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R. J. Leroux J. C. Morley
Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting Director
Officer)

/s/ R. C. Cambre /s/ S. B. Oresman
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R. C. Cambre S. B. Oresman
Director Director

/s/ R. Cucuz /s/ A. Schwartz
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R. Cucuz A. Schwartz
Director Director

/s/ J. D. Ireland, III
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J. D. Ireland, III
Director

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