page_title: Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: Coolgardie Chamber of Mines, Western Australia
context_page_description: The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia is a peak business and employers' association in Western Australia.
  It originated with previous bodies that emerged during the 1890s in the Goldfields region. The Coolgardie Chamber of Mines and Commerce, founded in 1895, was followed in 1896 by a separate Kalgoorlie Chamber of Mines. A Perth Chamber of Mines, founded in 1897, quickly became defunct.
  The Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie bodies merged in 1900, as the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia. The headquarters of the combined body were in the Kalgoorlie Chamber of Mines building. It 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, initially with an annual contribution of £2,000 per annum.
  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. It later moved to purpose-built headquarters in Perth.
context_section_description: The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia (CME) is a peak business and employers' association in Western Australia (WA).
  It originated with previous bodies that emerged during the 1890s in the Goldfields region. The Coolgardie Chamber of Mines and Commerce, founded in 1895, was followed in 1896 by a separate Kalgoorlie Chamber of Mines. A Perth Chamber of Mines, founded in 1897, quickly became defunct.
  The Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie bodies merged in 1900, as the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia. The headquarters of the combined body were in the Kalgoorlie Chamber of Mines building. It 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).
  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. It later moved to purpose-built headquarters in Perth.
caption: The Coolgardie Chamber of Mines building, circa 1900, when the chamber merged with its counterpart in Kalgoorlie.
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