You’ll need to head to a new region to gather this ore.
Grabbing some iron in Dune: Awakening is one of the necessary steps in upgrading your equipment and what you can build in your little desert enclave. You will have already crafted plenty using copper, but now it’s time for the Iron Age, though that will necessitate you relocating a little bit to actually find some.
Sadly, this does mean you’ll have to contend with heatstroke and hungry, hungry sandworms trying to chow down on you. All that said, here’s how to find iron in Dune: Awakening, plus how to craft the special cutteray you’ll need to harvest it.Dune: Awakening iron location
You can find iron in Eastern and Western Vermillius Gap; the two regions directly to the north of Hagga Basin South where you start.