Premier to highlight growing partnership between Western Australia and Africa

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The Investing in African Mining Indaba is a great forum to highlight the strong and growing links between Western Australia and many African countries, whose abundant natural resources have put them in the mining spotlight, Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett tells Mining Weekly. "Western Australia is the world's largest mining economy, with resource exports worth more than $100-billion a year. In 2012, the State - which occupies the entire western third of Australia - produced more than a quarter of the world's iron-ore, which equates to about 26%, and produced about 14% of the world's aluminium and nickel," he highlights.