Gold Rush Crush Traditional Cache
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Near the Venus Battery, an important part of the Charters Towers gold rush days and now a part of tourism.
There is parking, there is shade, there is water, there are picnic tables, there is probably gold and there is now a geocache. Bring something to eat and enjoy a stop here. You can see the back of the Venus Battery and if you time it right, you could take a tour of the battery. From the heritagetrails.qld.gov.au/attractions/charters.html website: The Venus Gold Battery. On the outskirts of town, the Venus Gold Battery offers an insight into an amazing real-life gold rush in the late 19th century. The battery is of national cultural significance as the largest surviving battery relic in Australia and oldest surviving battery in Queensland. Constructed in 1872, it was a public or custom mill in its heyday and became a State battery in 1919 to provide ore crushing facilities for small miners long after other mills had closed. It ceased commercial operations in the early 70s, after a century of service. New interpretive displays present the process of extracting gold from quartz with interactive characters telling the stories of not only how the battery worked, but also of their working lives and times and events of Charters Towers. Cache is small with log, a small vial of gold glitter paint for FTF and a couple small tradeables. New cache is a 35 mm film canister and it is about a meter towards the road from the coordinates of the last location of the cache. New cache put in today is slightly away from others, new coordinates S 20 05.187; E 146 17.671. Now in a Berocca container . Still need your own writing implement. See if this one disappears quickly.
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