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The industrious town of Port Hedland, with its low-rise corrugated buildings and fibro houses, is caked in dark red dirt. Its massive dock handles the iron-ore mined at Newman and exports more tonnage than any other Australian port. It’s the stockpiles of ore dominating the skyline that are the source of that layer of dust that coats the town.
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