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Well, no, but the value isn't so much in raw resources as much as it is facilitating the means of processing them.
Like, sure, you could try to make several trips from the swamp back to your main base, or, you could set up a swamp base and process the iron you find while you're there, circumventing the need to load up a boat full of nothing but scrap iron.