Thackaringa

Thackaringa is a rural locality, civil Parish, railway stop and Cattle Station in Far Western New South Wales.[1]

Yancowinna, shown in a map from 1886.

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. [2]

Geography

Thackaringa is arid and sparsely settled with the economy derived mainly from broad acre agriculture, though some mining occurs.[3] Thackaringa is on the Silverton Tramway and Thackaringa railway station operated from 2-Jan-1889 until 12-Jan-1970.[4][5]

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. [6]

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.[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 and beryl are still extracted in the area today.[11]

References
  1. Michael Digby, 07 May 2015 Thackaringa.
  2. Map of Thackaringa, NSW.
  3. Thackaringa Project – Cobalt Blue Holdings.
  4. Thackaringa (1st) Station.
  5. Ron J Fitch (2006). Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner. Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 195–199. ISBN 1-877058-48-3.
  6. https://www.mindat.org/loc-19064.html Thackaringa District], Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia. at minedat.org.
  7. David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  8. [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
  9. Thackaringa Silver Mining - circa 1883, Thackaringa History – Cobalt Blue Holdings(Cobalt Blue Holdings).
  10. "THE BARRIER SILVER FIELD - No.XIX - Thackaringa". Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912). 1888-02-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  11. Plimer, I.R. and Blucher, I.D. (1979) Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 505-507.

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