Thackaringa
rural locality in New South Wales, Australia
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 mainly dependent on broad-acre agriculture, though some mining occurs.
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.
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.
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