Is it possible to mine iron ore?

[Jafa]

If so how do I find ore?

[Armagenesis]

You might need to go somewhere really far off the map, or at least away from the cities and towns. I've only been staying around the towns, and I've only found limestones and flint so far.

[Jafa]

I wanna know if it even exists in the game. Has anybody seen it or are we speculating? I haven't played/survived long enough to get into the new crafting system yet.

[Armagenesis]

That's just my speculation. No one has definitively mentioned the existence of iron veins yet.
Even clay is still hard to find at the moment. Considering the amount required to make things with it, I assume there should be patches of clay you can harvest from. And haven't seen any of them yet.

[Ictiv]

Clay can be found by foraging, using the "investigate Area" window (Maginifying glass icon in the top left menu).
As for iron ore, I haven't gotten into metalworking yet, but I don't think I heard anything about mining being a thing in this update. That being said, I don't think it will be a problem if there is no mining. There is a ton of metal to use on the map already. You can take apart cars for parts, metal furniture like industrial kitchens, etc. Again, haven't played with metalworking yet, but I imagine that's intended to be your main source of metal resources, along with raiding industrial areas.