Emu Flat, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Emu Flat
State:sa
Postcode:5453
Dist1:5
Dir1:west
Location1:Clare
Lga:District Council of Clare and Gilbert Valleys
Stategov:Frome
Fedgov:Grey
Coordinates:-33.86°N 138.59°W
Near-N:Armagh
Near-E:Clare
Near-Se:Gillentown
Near-Sw:Spring Gully
Near-W:Boconnoc Park
Footnotes:[1]

Emu Flat is a locality in the western Clare Valley in South Australia.

In the 19th century, Emu Flat was the site of some copper mining by the Royal Mining Company and the Burra Company. The Burra Company already had a successful mine at Burra to the northeast. It had an agreement with the Royal Mining Company, but when the land was auctioned, Burra had the capacity to outbid on every lot. It could pay 20% of the purchase price, and if the land did not look good, could forfeit the deposit and land on sections it no longer wanted. The mine was not very successful, and closed around 1910.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Placename Details: Emu Flat (LOCB) . Property Location Browser Report . SA0053534 . 13 November 2008 . Government of South Australia . 2 February 2018 . 12 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . dead .