Title: Iron ore in Australia
Content:  Iron ore in Australia is mined mostly in two states and one territory of the six states and two territories of Australia. The two leading major producers are BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. There are twelve substantial mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, while smaller mines are scattered elsewhere.
Title: Iron ore in Australia
Content: Western Australia ; Pilbara ; Yilgarn ; South Australia ; Middleback Ranges, near Whyalla ; Iron Baron ; Iron Duke ; Peculiar Knob ; Northern Territory 
Title: Iron ore in Australia
Content: New South Wales ; Lockhart - Standard mining. 
Title: Iron ore mining in Western Australia
Content:  The bulk of iron ore production in Western Australia comes from the Pilbara region of the state. A number of mines however are also located in the Mid West and Kimberley regions as well as in the Wheatbelt. The big two producers, Rio Tinto and BHP accounted for 90 percent of all iron ore production in the state in 2008-09, with the third-biggest producer being the Fortescue Metals Group. Rio Tinto operates twelve iron ore mines in Western Australia, BHP seven, Fortescue two, all of those are located in the Pilbara region.
Title: Iron ore
Content:  alluvial channels such as at Pannawonica, Western Australia; and the dominant metasomatically-altered banded iron formation-related ores such as at Newman, the Chichester Range, the Hamersley Range and Koolyanobbing, Western Australia. Other types of ore are coming to the fore recently, such as oxidised ferruginous hardcaps, for instance laterite iron ore deposits near Lake Argyle in Western Australia. The total recoverable reserves of iron ore in India are about 9,602 million tonnes of hematite and 3,408 million tonnes of magnetite. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu are the principal Indian producers 
Title: Iron ore
Content:  Geoscience Australia calculates that the country's "economic demonstrated resources" of iron currently amount to 24 gigatonnes, or 24 billion tonnes. Another estimate places Australia's reserves of iron ore at 52 billion tonnes, or 30 per cent of the world’s estimated 170 billion tonnes, of which Western Australia accounts for 28 billion tonnes. The current production rate from the Pilbara region of Western Australia is approximately 430 million tonnes a year and rising. Gavin Mudd (RMIT University) and Jonathon Law (CSIRO) expect it to be gone within 30–50 years and 56 years, respectively. These 2010 estimates require on-going review to take into account shifting demand for lower-grade iron ore and improving mining and recovery techniques (allowing deeper mining below the groundwater table).
Title: Iron ore
Content:  Brazilian mining corporation Vale, followed by Anglo-Australian companies Rio Tinto Group and then BHP. A further Australian supplier, Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, has helped bring Australia's production to first in the world. The seaborne trade in iron ore—that is, iron ore to be shipped to other countries—was 849 million tonnes in 2004. Australia and Brazil dominate the seaborne trade, with 72% of the market. BHP, Rio and Vale control 66% of this market between them. In Australia iron ore is won from three main sources: pisolite "channel iron deposit" ore derived by mechanical erosion of primary banded-iron formations and accumulated 
Title: Iron ore mining in Western Australia
Content:  Iron ore mining in Western Australia, in the 2018–19 financial year, accounted for 54 percent of the total value of the state's resource production, with a value of A$78.2 billion. The overall value of the minerals and petroleum industry in Western Australia was A$145 billion in 2018-19, a 26 percent increase on the previous financial year. Western Australia's iron ore output for 2018–19 was 794 million tonnes, a decrease of 5 percent on 2017–18. The bulk of Western Australian ore went to China, which imported 82% of 2018 production, followed by Japan with 7.5% and South Korea with 6%. The state has the world's largest reserves of iron ore with 29% of the world's iron ore, followed by Brazil with 19%, Russia with 15% and China with 12%. In 2018–19 the Western Australian Government received A$4.9 billion in royalties from the iron ore mining industry in the state.
Title: List of iron ore mines in Australia
Content: Frances Creek ; Union Reef - rail to Darwin 
Title: Iron ore mining in Western Australia
Content:  In the Pilbara, iron ore is shipped from Port Hedland, Dampier and Cape Lambert. The latter two ports are exclusively used by Rio Tinto, while Port Hedland is used by BHP, FMG and Atlas Iron. Port facilities at Port Hedland consist of Nelson Point and Finucane Island, both BHP, and Herb Elliott Port, used by FMG. In Dampier, ore is shipped from Parker Point and East Intercourse Island. The non-Pilbara mines ship their ore out of other ports: Windarling Range ships from the port of Esperance; the Jack Hills, Koolanooka, Mungada and Mt Gibson mines ship from Geraldton.

Question: where does iron ore come from in australia?
Answer: Western Australia.