Thackaringa


Thackaringa is a rural locality, civil Parish, railway stop and Cattle Station in Far Western New South Wales.

Location

Thackaringa is located at 141.0623°, -32.0245°, 489.263 km from Sydney and between Cockburn, South Australia on the border with South Australia and by Silverton in the north-east. Thackaringa is at an altitude of approximately 204m.

Geography

Thackaringa is arid and sparsely settled with the economy derived mainly from broad acre agriculture, though some mining occurs.
Thackaringa is on the Silverton Tramway and Thackaringa railway station operated from 2-Jan-1889 until
12-Jan-1970.
The nearest town is Cockburn, South Australia.

Geology

The northern part of the district is cut by a large retrograde shear zone containing large garnets and refractory minerals.... There are many other small mineral deposits found in the Thackaringa district where quartz veins and/or granitic rocks have crystallised including the Thackaringa davidite belt and pods of large rutile crystals.

Climate

Thackaringa has a Köppen climate classification of BWh and BWk desert.

History

The Parish is part of the traditional lands of the Wiljali people.
The area was opened by Europeans due to the discovery of minerals in the 19th century. Silver, lead, feldspar and beryl are still extracted in the area today.