{{short description|Rural locality in New South Wales, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} thumb|250px|Yancowinna, shown in a map from 1886.'''Thackaringa''' is a rural locality, civil parish, railway stop and cattle station in Far Western New South Wales.<ref>Michael Digby, 7 May 2015 [http://www.nrmhub.com.au/properties/thackaringa/ Thackaringa].</ref>
==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.<ref>[http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=7609&cmd=sp Map of Thackaringa, NSW].</ref>
==Geography== Thackaringa is arid and sparsely settled, with the economy mainly dependent on broad-acre agriculture, though some mining occurs.<ref>[https://www.cobaltblueholdings.com/thackaringa-project/ Thackaringa Project – Cobalt Blue Holdings].</ref>
Thackaringa was on the former Silverton Tramway, which ran between Broken Hill and the South Australian border, and Thackaringa railway station operated from 2 January 1889 until 12 January 1970.<ref>[https://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?name=NSW:Thackaringa+(1st) Thackaringa (1st) Station].</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner|author=Ron J Fitch|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPeKxIjmDtYC&dq=silverton+tramway&pg=PA196|pages=195–199|isbn=1-877058-48-3}}</ref>
The nearest town is Cockburn, South Australia.
===Geology=== <blockquote>''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.''<ref>[https://www.mindat.org/loc-19064.html Thackaringa District], Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia. at minedat.org.</ref></blockquote>
===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.<ref>[https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.]</ref>
The area was opened by Europeans due to the discovery of minerals in the 19th century.<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-miner-and-his-family-at-Thackaringa-in-the-late-1800s-Source-Broken-Hill-Library_fig4_322807951 A miner and his family at Thackaringa in the late 1800s. Source: Broken... | Download Scientific Diagram], researchgate.net</ref><ref>[https://www.cobaltblueholdings.com/thackaringa-mining-history/ Thackaringa Silver Mining – circa 1883], Thackaringa History – Cobalt Blue Holdings(Cobalt Blue Holdings).</ref> There was a grazing property, known as Thackaringa Station, and the first discovery of silver ore in the area was made there in 1875, by Julius Nickel who was digging a well. In 1888, the population of Thackaringa was between 200 and 300 people.<ref>{{Cite news|date=17 February 1888|title=THE BARRIER SILVER FIELD – No.XIX – Thackaringa|pages=4|work=Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 – 1912)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204445231|access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref> Silver, lead, feldspar and beryl are still extracted in the area today.<ref>Plimer, I.R. and Blucher, I.D. (1979) Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 505–507.</ref>
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Category:Parishes of New South Wales Category:Mining towns in New South Wales Category:Ghost towns in New South Wales