UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

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FORM 8-K

 

Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): 

January 19, 2017

 

MESABI TRUST

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

(904) 271-2520 

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

☐  Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Item 2.02        Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

 

On January 19, 2017, Mesabi Trust issued a press release announcing that the Trustees of Mesabi Trust declared a distribution of fourteen cents ($0.14) per Unit of Beneficial Interest payable on February 20, 2017 to Mesabi Trust Unitholders of record at the close of business on January 30, 2017.  A copy of the press release is being furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K.    

 

Item 9.01        Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)        Exhibits

 

99.1     Press release, dated January 19, 2017.

 

In accordance with general instruction B.2 to Form 8-K, the information in this Form 8-K shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section.

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.