Fool's Gold Rush Multi-cache

This is a six stage multi that takes you around some of Trewellard's tin mining heritage. The trail covers around 2½ miles and takes you through an area of high cliffs and mine shafts. Please take care not to place yourself or others at risk whilst attempting this cache. It should take around 2 hours in total to find the cache, although this is entirely dependent on how quickly you can find each stage.

This area is part of the West Penwith Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Please take time to admire the stunning coastal views, but also bear in mind that this makes it very popular with walkers, so stealth will be required when retrieving the caches.

Although in places the landscape appears to have been "devastated" by the mining industry, these areas not only represent an internationally important cultural legacy, but also provide an increasingly important and diverse wildlife habitat for rare birds, plants, insects and more.

Adders are known in the area, so please take extra care during the summer months, especially if you have dogs or small children with you.

At each stage there will be questions to answer that will give you the coordinates for the next stage. Please bring a pen and paper with you to write down the questions, answers and coordinates. DO NOT take any of the stages or laminates away with you as other cachers may be looking for them! We also recommend that you bring a printout of the hints with you. Each stage will give you a bit of history about the area around the stage. The containers for the first five stages are all micros (35mm film canisters). Please take care to replace each stage exactly as found - especially stage three.

The nearby Levant and Geevor mines are both open for guided tours during the summer months if you would like to further investigate the area's mining heritage. A cafe is available at Geevor for refreshments and offers excellent coastal views.

The cache has been named "Fool's Gold Rush" because as well as the tin, copper and arsenic that the mines produced, a lot of iron pyrite (commonly known as fool's gold) was also excavated by the miners. A "nugget" of fool's gold has been left in the cache. Please do not swap the nugget, leave it in the cache for others to see.

The main coordinates above will take you to stage 1. Parking is available at the coordinates given below. A bus service is available - take no. 17A (or during the summer no. 300) from Penzance, St. Just or St. Ives to Trewellard. Apply Hint 1 to the first stage.