Stuart Creek Station lies between the Olympic Dam mine and Lake Eyre south is leased by BHP Billiton. It takes in a range of different country including sandhills, breakaways, mound springs and gibber plains.

BHP Billiton’s principal focus is the maintenance of environmental and heritage values whilst striving towards cost neutrality through low intensity, organically accredited, pastoral activities. Small herds of beef cattle and a trial herd of domesticated camels are managed for sale in domestic or export markets. Mound springs and some sensitive waterholes and significant vegetation patches are fenced from stock to allow their rehabilitation.

A primary objective of BHP Billiton is to demonstrate that contemporary pastoral management should be consistent with conservation initiatives in the region. Monitoring and management of rabbits and feral predators is undertaken with the aim of facilitating reintroductions of threatened fauna from the adjacent Arid Recovery Reserve into this operating pastoral lease.