GoldRush Multi-cache
isolino: Moved out of state.
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This is my first "muti-stage" cache. The above coordinates takes you to the first stage. Then figure out the clues to get the coordinates to where the cache is hidden. Cache is in a golden container and is hidden about a mile away.
The above coordinates take you to near the front door of the Ironstone Heritage Museum, go inside and look for the vault where the "Crystalline Gold Specimen" is kept. Pick up a pamphlet by the front door of the vault and fill in the missing numbers for YY and XX on the description bellow.
The coordinates to the cache are: N 38 06.5YY W 120 29.2XX
THE IRONSTONE
CRYSTALLINE GOLD SPECIMEN
"THE CROWN JEWEL"
On December 26, 1992, owners of the Sonora Mining Corporation mine near Jamestown in Tuolumne County, received an unexpected Christmas present. Excavations in the company's Crystalline mine uncovered a "pocket" of crystalline leaf gold.
Approximately 1,568 ounces of specimen gold were found. The largest piece, the Ironstone specimen, weighs in at XX pounds. This is the largest specimen of crystalline gold in the world. The specimen consists of many layers of leaf gold separated by rock consisting mostly of clay, quartz, maraposite, decomposed shale and pyrite.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
The Ironstone gold specimen is the largest single piece of gold mined in North America since the 1800's. Between 18YY and 1880 several large masses of gold were found in California. None of them exist today.
Just before World War II, several miners in the Mother Lode encountered large pockets of gold weighing several thousand ounces, but not as single masses or crystallized. The Ironstone specimen is unique in that it is not only the largest mass of gold specimen found in California since the turn of the century, but it is also the largest specimen of crystallized gold in existence today. Of equal importance, it is gold in the rarest form-crystallized. It is priceless in value.
Winter hours 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Summer hours 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
When place the cache contained the following:
Geoletter.
Log Book and Golden Pen.
Carabiner Key Chain.
Agate Slab.
2 Kyanite.
2 Pyrite (Fools Gold).
2 Geode.
2 Rose Quartz.
2 Quartz.
2 Golden Bangles.
Gold Angels Camp Magnet.
Gold Angels Camp Emblem.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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