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  • A core of deep blue iron ore from the Hamersley Province.

    Australia's 55 billion tons of iron ore

    K. Warner, Metal Tech News|Updated Dec 17, 2024

    World's largest deposit could rewrite geological history and lock the country in as industry leader. As global demand for iron continues to rise, geologists in Australia have uncovered the largest iron ore deposit ever documented in the Hamersley province of Western Australia, challenging long-held theories about Earth's mineral formation. The region is already home to some of the richest established iron ore reserves on Earth, with the scale and value of this discovery...

  • McGill University Pretium Resources Brucejack Mine British Columbia Canada

    Brucejack, sour milk and bonanza gold veins

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    The formation of bonanza-grade gold veins like those running through the ore at Pretium Resources Inc.'s Brucejack Mine in Northern British Columbia, Canada, has long baffled scientists. Given the time it would take the mineralizing fluids carrying minute concentrations of gold to form the thick veins of the precious metal, they simply should not exist. Yet, these seemingly impossible ultrahigh-grade seams of gold are found at places like Brucejack, Ballarat in Australia,...