Thackaringa is a rural locality, civil parish, railway stop and cattle station in Far Western New South Wales.Michael Digby, 7 May 2015 Thackaringa.
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. Map of Thackaringa, NSW.
Geography Thackaringa is arid and sparsely settled, with the economy mainly dependent on broad-acre agriculture, though some mining occurs. Thackaringa Project – Cobalt Blue Holdings.
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.Thackaringa (1st) Station.
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.Thackaringa District, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia. at minedat.org.
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. David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
The area was opened by Europeans due to the discovery of minerals in the 19th century. A miner and his family at Thackaringa in the late 1800s. Source: Broken... | Download Scientific Diagram, researchgate.netThackaringa Silver Mining – circa 1883, Thackaringa History – Cobalt Blue Holdings(Cobalt Blue Holdings). 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. Silver, lead, feldspar and beryl are still extracted in the area today.Plimer, I.R. and Blucher, I.D. (1979) Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 505–507.
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