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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 a settlement associated with the Iron Baron iron ore mine (32°59′48″S 137°09′30″E / 32.99666667°S 137.15833333°E / -32.99666667; 137.15833333) on Eyre Peninsula at the southern edge of South Australia's Far North region, 413 kilometres (257 miles) north-west of Adelaide.

The settlement was situated about 200 metres from the eastern boundary of the mine. BHP owned and serviced the settlement, having built it about 1938. There were several dozen houses, a one-teacher primary school, a general store, oval, swimming pool, netball courts, picnic areas and licensed community club.

Before the mine’s re-opening in 2011, BHP bulldozed all the settlement's surface infrastructure, including buildings, into a pit at the mine. Employees now commute from Whyalla or elsewhere.

Operation of the nearby mine

The Iron Baron mine is one of several large orebodies in the Middleback Range, with a production capacity of about two million tonnes of haematite a year. Built by BHP in 1933, it went out of operation between 1947 and 1958; it was re-opened in 2011. On-site facilities now include a fully functional ore beneficiation plant.

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