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[edit] Mining in Western Australia

Dear IP editor, Thanks for your additions to Mining in Western Australia. Some of these edits are unencyclopaedic, specifically [1]. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia and we do not include essays or points of views. The source you have quoted is just an opinion of Ian Loftus from the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies - hardly a neutral source.

I've reverted your edits again and ask that before you reinsert them again you discuss them on my talk page or on the article talk page. —Moondyne 05:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

I've got to agree with Moondyne, the information your adding isnt encyclopedic at best its an essay piece and at worse its a political POV but either way collection and usage of royalities by which ever government has nothing to do with the physical act of mining in Western Australia. Gnangarra 07:45, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that - Gnangarra, the collection and use of mining royalties is directly linked to mining (in fact, the state government agency that regulates mining publishes stats on royalties). If you want to run an article on mining in WA and cite figures about value of production, volume of production, then why not place mining in its correct context??

We've said that mining contributes 30% of Western Australia's Gross State Product. The article does not need to got beyond that to describe how the government royalties are spent. And to say that "the continued sustainability of the State's resources industry is jeopardised by a lack of State Government leadership" is clearly just one person point of view. —Moondyne 13:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)