Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY
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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, Franklin L. Hartman 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, 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 14th day of June, 1996.

/s/ M. T. Moore /s/ L. L. Kanuk
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M. T. Moore L. L. Kanuk
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Director
and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ J. S. Brinzo /s/ F. R. McAllister
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J. S. Brinzo F. R. McAllister
Executive Vice President-Finance Director
(Principal Financial Officer)

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

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

/s/ R. S. Colman /s/ A. Schwartz
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R. S. Colman A. Schwartz
Director Director

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

/s/ G. F. Joklik /s/ A. W. Whitehouse
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G. F. Joklik A. W. Whitehouse
Director Director

/s/ E. B. Jones
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E. B. Jones
Director