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Mining for Iron at Mount Whaleback

The site in Western Australia holds one of the country’s largest and oldest iron ore mines.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using data from NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Photograph was taken by Graeme Churchard (CC BY 2.0 license). Story by Kasha Patel.

Published October 17, 2020
Data acquired July 16, 2020

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