Stannifer, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Stannifer
state = nsw


caption = Stannifer, NSW
lga = Inverell Shire Council
county = Gough
postcode = 2369
est =
pop =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Northern Tablelands
fedgov = New England
dist1 = 603
dir1 = N
location1= Sydney
dist2 = 114
dir2 = NW
location2= Armidale
dist3 = 17
dir3 = SE
location3= Inverell

Stannifer is a small rural village, in Gough County on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia The village is situated 9km north of Tingha, New South Wales on the Elsmore Rd and is in the Inverell Shire Council area. Middle Creek, a tributary of the Macintyre River is nearby.

The village is several kilometres from the locality of Old Mill and both are old tin mining villages with remnants of the mining past still visible in places and fossicking still carried on in local creek beds.

The main industries are mining, timber, fossicking and agriculture. Several varieties of gems can be found in the Stannifer fossicking area, including jellybeans, Quartz and Grass Stone

References

“Inverell Shire Information”, c.1981