Jerry Mystery Cache
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This nano sized cache is not located at the listed co-ordinates!
The listed co-ordinates are those of Port Kembla No. 6 Blast Furnace built by Australian Iron and Steel in 1971.
This is the last of a 6 cache series commemorating the Port Kembla Blast Furnaces. The full series will take finders to locations where six historical blast furnaces operated in NSW. These enterprises met with varying degrees of success.
This nano sized cache is not located at the listed co-ordinates!
The listed co-ordinates are those of Port Kembla No. 6 Blast Furnace built by Australian Iron and Steel in 1971.
This is the last of a 6 cache series commemorating the Port Kembla Blast Furnaces. The full series will take finders to locations where six historical blast furnaces operated in NSW. These enterprises met with varying degrees of success.
Blast Furnaces are sometimes known by the name of the person who first lit them. No. 6 Furnace at Port Kembla was first lit on June 11, 1996 by Jerry Platt,then General Manager Primary Production at BHP Steel’s Port Kembla Works. Jerry had played a major role in the planning and authorization process for the new furnace.
Below are some construction statistics for the furnace:
?? 2000 piles driven (equivalent to 40km)
?? 15,000 m3 of concrete
?? 4500 tonnes of equipment
?? 17,000 tonnes of structural steel
?? 73 kms of service pipework
?? 7870 kms of cable
?? 16,500 tonnes of refractory material
?? 1,940,000 refractory bricks
Sadly, No 6 Blast Furnace was shut down on August 22 2011. The closure was forced by Bluescope's high export exposure and the massive appreciation of the Australian dollar over the preceding months and years.
The combined production of all 6 furnaces that have operated at Port Kembla has quite recently passed the 200,000,000 tonnes mark. No6 Furnace’s contribution stands at over 38 million tonnes at closure.
To find the coordinates of the cache location find caches “Who lit No 2?” and “Joe Baker”. The former provides the south decimals XXX and the latter provides the east decimals YYY.
The cache is located at S 34 28.XXX E 150 53.YYY
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