An Iron Deposit of a Whole New Scale

A discovery in Australia is one for the history books!

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Signs of an iron deposit of immense proportions have surfaced in Australia. Dubbed the Hamersley deposit, it may clock in at 55 billion metric tons and could be worth trillions of dollars. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Liam Courtney-Davies (Curtin University, Australia) looks beyond the economic value. The scientific value to geologists? Priceles