The old Red, White & Blue Traditional Cache
The old Red, White & Blue
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This cache will take you to one of my favourite, and well hidden
places around Maldon - the remains of the Red White and Blue gold
mine.
This area can be accessed on good dirt roads from a number of
directions, personally - I've always got to it from the west bound
tracks near the remains of the Gower school (sign posted on the
Catlemaine<->Maldon road). It may get a bit slippery after
wet weather, and very dusty in dry weather.
Red, White and Blue differs from other mines around here as it has
it's wheel tower still in place, but as it's quite a way out in the
bush, the structure is not visible until you are almost on top of
it.
The earliest alluvial diggings date back to the 1850s with the most
recent operations dating from 1958. The mine shaft was started in
1871 and reached a level of 52 metres. The lease was acquired in
1958 by Golden Age Gold P/L and the mine was reopened with a poppet
head being brought from the Deborah United Mine in Bendigo to
operate the mine - but it was pretty unsuccessful.
Caution - a few items to remember:
- That dam over there is full of the residue of an a seriously
filthy industrial process. It is not safe to take a dip or "take
the waters"! Best avoided.
- This area has a number of open, and sometimes hidden mine shafts.
It's not a good idea to go walking off into the unmarked bush
(except to get to this cache !)
- In the summer there are snakes around here.
The cache itself if a medium sized Sistema in a very obvious
location. And was placed as a team effort between Iamapom and
iamapom's geo-father-in-law one-eyed. The difficulty here is
finding the mine - not the finding of the cache container. The
cache is in a tree stump of course. I left one of my personal
pathtags in there as a FTF prize.
Would be great to see photos of cachers at the mine site !
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Vg'f va n gerr fghzc ebhaq gur onpx, Xvaqbs ba gur qnz fvqr.
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