Pickaxe Mountain is in central Iran, about 77 miles north of the city of Isfahan. The origin of Pickaxe Mountain starts earlier in the process of this collision. And that is where Pickaxe Mountain and its neighbors, which are part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, come from. Pickaxe Mountain is near Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Complex, where an explosion in July 2020, possibly caused by a covert Israeli attack, caused serious damage to the country’s nuclear program. This was the strategy used during June 2025 bombings at Natanz and a nearby nuclear site called Fordow that are thought to have damaged equipment such as centrifuges.