| Emu Flat South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Emu Flat | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°52′S 138°35′E / 33.86°S 138.59°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 106 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5453 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 5 km (3 mi) west of Clare | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Clare and Gilbert Valleys | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Frome | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | [2] | ||||||||||||||
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.[3] The mine was not very successful, and closed around 1910.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Emu Flat (SA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Placename Details: Emu Flat (LOCB)". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 13 November 2008. SA0053534. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ Fisher, T. J. (Thomas John) (1851), Visit to the Burra Burra mines and the great smelting works in South Australia : January, February, March and April 1851 / by T.J. Fisher, pp. 15–16
