Edited sentence: Despite the economic, financial, social and environmental benefits that mining delivers to the State's residents, the continued sustainability of the State's resources industry is jeopardised by a lack of State Government leadership.In fact, some of the factors that directly threaten the industry's sustainability result from State Government actions - for example, ongoing attempts to quarantine nearly 6 million hectares of former pastoral land from resource development through attempting to have the land classified as Nature Reserve.The significent royalty payments generated as a result of mining in the State are largely responsible for providing the schools, hospitals, aged care facilities, public transport, libraries and other social infrastructure that the people of Western Australia enjoy