A clock tower stands in the mining town of Kalgoorlie, Australia, on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013. Western Australia, the nation's largest state by area with 2.6 million square kilometers (1 million square miles) of land, earned A$97 billion from minerals and energy sales in 2012, down from A$108 billion in 2011, according to government figures. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via Getty Images