Thackaringa

Thackaringa is a rural locality, civil parish, railway stop and cattle station in Far Western New South Wales.

[2] Thackaringa is arid and sparsely settled with the economy derived mainly from broad acre agriculture, though some mining occurs.

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.

[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.