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Iron ore one day may join gold, silver and copper as a major commodity exported across the world — perhaps to China — from Nevada. Western Resources Group has assembled a block of iron ore claims in the Buena Vista iron district in Pershing County and is pitching the property for $75 million, President Gary Clifton says. The block encompasses hundreds of claims on mostly private land and includes four prior-producing iron ore mines. The open pit mines were operational between 1940 and 1960.

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