Iron Baron was a settlement associated with the Iron Baron iron ore mine[7] (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.

[8] The settlement was situated about 200 metres from the eastern boundary of the mine.

There were several dozen houses, a one-teacher primary school, a general store, oval, swimming pool, netball courts, picnic areas and licensed community club.

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.

[12] On-site facilities now include a fully functional ore beneficiation plant.