The power of coal Traditional Cache
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The cache is placed at a ‘machine’ transporting coal in former times.
Hwange and the surrounding countryside is a centre for the coal mining industry in Zimbabwe. Hwange Colliery is the largest coal mine in the country, with proven reserves that are estimated to last over 1,000, at current production levels. The Wankie Coal Field, one of the largest in the world, was discovered here in 1895 by the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham. Today the coal for the whole country is transported by the mining railway to Thomson Junction, where it is handed over to the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) for onward transmission.
Hwange is also a tourism centre due to the presence of the nearby Hwange National Park, the largest National Park in Zimbabwe.
The cache is placed at a ‘machine’ transporting coal in former times.
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Yrsg, ba gbc bs guveq nkyr
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