Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia

[2] A Perth Chamber of Mines, founded in 1897,[3] quickly became defunct.

[4] The Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie bodies merged in 1900, as the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia.

[4][5] The headquarters of the combined body were in the Kalgoorlie Chamber of Mines building.

[6] The Chamber of Mines formed a security unit known as "The Bureau", to prevent and investigate gold theft and, from 1907, the chamber financed the WA Police Gold Squad (known later as the Gold Stealing Detection Unit), initially with an annual contribution of £2,000 per annum (more than $275,000 in 2016).

[7][8] In the 1960s, other geological resources and regions became significant, such as iron ore, oil and natural gas in the Pilbara, along with nickel, bauxite and mineral sands elsewhere, the organisation was renamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy.