An area within the southern Flinders Ranges, which is centred 35 km east of Port Augusta and covers the eastern side of the Willlochra Basin, has been explored for many metallic minerals and extractive minerals. An earlier aerial survey of the region performed by Blackfire had distinguished geomorphic features often associated with alluvial gold, and diamonds, whilst an on-ground examination had revealed phosphate. Other recorded geological features also suggested that some igneous and perhaps volcanic activity had occurred locally, perhaps in relation to the formation of an inferred block-faulted graben structure. During the first licence year, the only field work undertaken was a reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic RAB drilling campaign of 20 vertical open holes with a total penetration of 736 m, completed over the period September-October 2008. A comprehensive geochemical analysis of many resampled historic drillhole drill cuttings and surface samples stored at the PIRSA Core Library was also performed [but not sure about this - information looks like a dump that was made of existing SA_GEODATA drill assay data]. At licence renewal on 20/1/2009, a total of 165 square km or ~25% of the originally granted area, then comprising seven small peripheral portions of ground, was relinquished since it was deemed to have little potential for further exploration. No field work had been done on these licence portions. During licence Year 2, field work consisted of a more detailed exploration of the surface terrain for any outcropping copper, manganese, haematite, haematite gossan, phosphate etc. mineralisation. Many minor showings of copper and haematite were observed, and the host rocks photographed. Some samples of clay were also collected. During licence Year 3, a second RAB drilling campaign of 6 vertical open holes for 774.3 m was conducted firstly during September-November 2010 and then was completed in January 2011, using a now modified drilling rig with greater drilling depth capacity. A series of ?BQ diamond cored 'tails' totalling 367.2 m were cut in all of these holes. The targets for this drilling were possible shallowly buried IOCG type mineralisation associated with aeromagnetic anomalies that had been discerned from past BHP airborne survey data through filtering of it to enhance the responses from the folded and faulted bedrock beneath the Willochra Plain. An attempt was made at formulating a detailed structural model for the deformed Neoproterozoic bedrock, which appeared to contain several major overturned folds and complex fault patterns with origins that in part might involve blind diapirism. It was also postulated from field evidence that hydrothermally altered ?Palaeozoic volcaniclastic and tuffaceous rocks occur in the vicinity of Muttabee Creek. Six selected samples of the recovered drill cores were examined petrographically by Roger Townend in December 2010. During licence Year 4, Blackfire Resources conducted an office-based review of geological, geophysical, geochemical and drilling data, including making an assessment of its own drilling results. It was stated that the holes had intersected various clay units, sandstone, siltstone, shale, slate, and possibly a volcanic breccia. Thin section analysis of these units determined the existence of a carbonaceous dolomitic component that it was thought might relate them to Mundiallo Subgroup dolomite members. A set of four cross-sections were drafted to portray the interpreted local lithostratigraphic settings of the drilling results. During licence Year 5, no work was done. Tenure of the full remaining area was allowed to lapse at expiry.