An area 30km west of Broken Hill in western New South Wales, encompassing the south-western end of the main Barrier Range - the Thackaringa Hills - and the pastoral stations of "Thackaringa", "Mount George" and "Stirling Vale". The district is most famous for containing several large pegmatites that were selectively mined for feldspar and beryl - the best known being the Triple Chance Mine. The northern part of the district is cut by a large retrograde shear zone containing large garnets and refractory minerals. The western edge of the Thackaringa Hills has the first site of mining in the Broken Hill silver fields with the Pioneer Mine. This along with many other small silver lead mines occur over a 10km north-south strike where numerous quartz veins contain silver and lead mineralisation. 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.
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References
- Plimer, I.R. and Blucher, I.D. (1979) Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 505-507.
- Barnes, R.G. (1987) Bulletin No.32, Metallogenic Studies of the Broken Hill and Euriowie Blocks, New South Wales. Part 2 Mineral Deposits of the Southwestern Broken Hill Block.
- Lishmund S.R. (1982) Bulletin No.28, Non-Metallic and Tin Deposits of the Broken Hill District.
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