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Marble Bar is a waiting room, and the iron is still working through the door

Marble Bar is a waiting room, and the iron is still working through the door

Aug 11, 2026 | Journal

If you walk the bed of Coongan Creek in the right stretch of the Hamersley Range in Western Australia, you will, at one point, walk across a bar of red-and-cream rock. It is not marble. It never was. It is a bar of banded iron formation — jaspilite, alternating...

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