GC3FF12 Saunders Mine- Carbon Hill Mine Series (Traditional Cache) in Virginia, United States created by altbiers

This cache has been archived.

offline.cacher: The general rule reviewers use to archive a cache is that the cache owner has been notified (through a log entry) by the reviewer and that no response has been forthcoming. This is the case with this cache. As a result it has been archived.
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GC3FF12 ▼

A cache by altbiers Message this owner

Hidden : 3/26/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is part of the Carbon Hill Mine Series.
I always wondered why this corner was never developed and the church had such a large rolling lawn. The shaft is in the middle of the large green grass.

Saunders Shaft
Location: I
Historical notes: The Saunders Shaft has a long history of ownership and may date to the early 1800s.
It was one of three mines to be operated in this district after 1873, but was closed in 1902.
The shaft was 220 feet deep; the depth to the "Coke seam" was 200 feet and the last 20 feet of the shaft was used as a sump. At least four levels were developed on a slope that was driven downdip in the "Coke seam." The levels driven north were the easiest to mine and most productive. The "Coke seam" averaged l0 to 12 feet thick in this mine, but pinched to an unmineable thickness near rolls in the strata.

This series is placed in celebration on my kids and I first anniversay of Geocaching. One year ago we did the Church Hill Tunnel Multicache and were hooked.

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