Deep Mine- Carbon Hill Mine Series Traditional Cache
Hidden : 3/26/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Deep Mine Shaft, Part of the Carbon Hill Mine Series

Deep Shaft, Air or Shelter Air Shaft, Snead's Shaft, Crouch and Sneqd's Shaft, Crouche's Pits, Brooks Shaft
Location: 7
Historical notes: There were four interconnected shafts on this property: Deep, Brooks, Air (or Shelter Air) and an unnamed shaft. Work began about 185 I by Mr. Snead on the Crouch property. Mining ceased near the end of the Civil War and the property remained idle until 1873. At this time the James River Coal Company cleaned out the old workings and resumed production of the natural coke, marketing it as Carbonite. The mine was last worked in 1875.
The Deep Shaft was approximately 200 feet deep, cutting the "Coke seam" and C coal, and bottoming in the B coal. Levels were turned off each bed and worked along strike. The south levels went only a short distance before encountering a dike 200 feet wide that separates this operation from the Coalbrook Slope's northern workings.
The Deep Shaft's north levels followed the C and B coals and ultimately connected with the Edge Hill Shaft workings near the old Belmont Hotel. A short slope that dipped 30" to the west at the bottom of the shaft was often filled with water and was used as a sump.



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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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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