Wallarunga is a rural locality and ghost town located at −32.031799316 and 141.317901611 about 10 kilometres south west of Broken Hill, New South Wales. Map of the County of Yancowinna, Western Division N.S.W., Land District of Willyama / compiled, drawn & printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney, N.S.W.http://www.geodata.us/australia_names_maps/aumaps.php?fid=98275&f=98&name=Wallarunga.
Geography Wallarunga is on the Broken Hill to Adelaide railway line and is the site of railway siding.
Wallarunga has a Köppen climate classification of BWh and BWk desert and is situated on the Pine Creek in the Alma parish.
Mining is the main industry of Wallarunga, with some broad acre agriculture.
History Wallarunga is part of the traditional lands of the Wiljali people. David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996."History." Broken Hill: Accessible Outback. 2007, Edition 15, p4.
The area was opened to Europeans after the discovery of minerals in the 19th century.A miner and his family at Thackaringa in the late 1800s. Source: Broken... | Download Scientific Diagram, researchgate.netThackaringa Silver Mining – circa 1883, Thackaringa History – Cobalt Blue Holdings(Cobalt Blue Holdings). Silver, lead, feldspar and beryl are still extracted in the area today.Plimer, I.R. and Blucher, I.D. (1979) Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 43, 505–507.
The area is also known as the Pinnacles due to the rock formations in Wallarunga.
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