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Iron Baron
South Australia
Iron Baron is located in South Australia
Iron Baron
Iron Baron
Location in South Australia
Established 26 April 2013
Postcode(s) 5601
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
  • 413 km (257 mi) north-west of Adelaide
  • 40 km (25 mi) west of Whyalla
LGA(s) Pastoral Unincorporated Area
Region Far North
County York
State electorate(s) Giles
Federal Division(s) Grey
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
23.8 °C
75 °F		 11.5 °C
53 °F		 266.8 mm
10.5 in
Suburbs around Iron Baron:
Myola Station Myola Station Myola Station
Myola Station Iron Baron Myola Station
Myola Station Myola Station Myola Station
Footnotes Locations
Adjoining localities

Iron Baron was once a small town in South Australia. It was built near a big mine that dug up iron ore. Iron ore is a rock used to make steel. The town was on the Eyre Peninsula, about 413 kilometres (257 miles) north-west of Adelaide.

The town was very close to the mine, only about 200 metres away. A large company called BHP owned and looked after the town. They built it around 1938. Iron Baron had many houses, a small school with one teacher, a shop, a sports oval, a swimming pool, netball courts, and places for picnics. There was also a club for the community.

However, before the mine started working again in 2011, BHP removed all the buildings and structures in the town. They pushed everything into a large pit at the mine site. Now, people who work at the mine travel from nearby towns like Whyalla instead of living there.

Mining Iron Ore at Iron Baron

The Iron Baron mine is one of several large places where iron ore is found. These mines are in the Middleback Range. The Iron Baron mine can dig up about two million tonnes of a type of iron ore called haematite each year.

BHP first built this mine in 1933. It stopped working for a while between 1947 and 1958. Then, it was opened again in 2011. Today, the mine has special equipment to clean and prepare the ore. This process is called ore beneficiation.

Other Nearby Mines

The Iron Baron mine is part of a group of mines in the area. Other important iron ore mines nearby include:

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