# Thackaringa

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**Thackaringa** is a [rural locality](/source/Rural_locality), [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish), railway stop and [cattle station](/source/Cattle_station) in Far Western New South Wales.[1]

## Location

Thackaringa is located at 141.0623°, −32.0245°, 489.263 km from Sydney and between [Cockburn, South Australia](/source/Cockburn,_South_Australia) on the border with [South Australia](/source/South_Australia) and by [Silverton](/source/Silverton,_New_South_Wales) in the north-east. Thackaringa is at an altitude of approximately 204m.[2]

## Geography

Thackaringa is arid and sparsely settled, with the economy mainly dependent on broad-acre agriculture, though some mining occurs.[3]

Thackaringa was on the former [Silverton Tramway](/source/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.[4][5]

The nearest town is [Cockburn, South Australia](/source/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.*[6]

### Climate

Thackaringa has a [Köppen climate classification](/source/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification) of [BWh](/source/Hot_desert_climate) and [BWk](/source/Cold_desert_climate) [desert](/source/Desert).

## History

The Parish is part of the traditional lands of the [Wiljali](/source/Wiljali) people.[7]

The area was opened by Europeans due to the discovery of minerals in the 19th century.[8][9] 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.[10] Silver, lead, [feldspar](/source/Feldspar) and [beryl](/source/Beryl) are still extracted in the area today.[11]

## References

1. Michael Digby, 7 May 2015 [Thackaringa](http://www.nrmhub.com.au/properties/thackaringa/).

1. [Map of Thackaringa, NSW](http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=7609&cmd=sp).

1. [Thackaringa Project – Cobalt Blue Holdings](https://www.cobaltblueholdings.com/thackaringa-project/).

1. [Thackaringa (1st) Station](https://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?name=NSW:Thackaringa+(1st)).

1. Ron J Fitch (2006). [*Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LPeKxIjmDtYC&dq=silverton+tramway&pg=PA196). Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 195–199. ISBN 1-877058-48-3.

1. [Thackaringa District](https://www.mindat.org/loc-19064.html), Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia. at minedat.org.

1. [David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.](https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia)

1. [A miner and his family at Thackaringa in the late 1800s. Source: Broken... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-miner-and-his-family-at-Thackaringa-in-the-late-1800s-Source-Broken-Hill-Library_fig4_322807951), researchgate.net

1. [Thackaringa Silver Mining – circa 1883](https://www.cobaltblueholdings.com/thackaringa-mining-history/), Thackaringa History – Cobalt Blue Holdings(Cobalt Blue Holdings).

1. ["THE BARRIER SILVER FIELD – No.XIX – Thackaringa"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204445231). *Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 – 1912)*. 17 February 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 20 October 2020.

1. Plimer, I.R. and Blucher, I.D. (1979) Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 505–507.

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