
A $5.7 Trillion Iron Ore Discovery Tests Australia’s Balance of Profit and Planet
A Discovery of Unprecedented Scale A massive iron ore deposit in Western Australia’s Hamersley region has turned heads—55 billion metric tons, valued at $5.7 trillion. It’s the biggest find ever, rewriting what geologists thought about iron formation timelines, pushing the date back to 1.4 billion years from 2.2 billion (Source: Daily Galaxy). This could lock…