Thackaringa

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, 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.

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]

Thackaringa has a Köppen climate classification of BWh and BWk desert.

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]