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Wheal Grambler mine Traditional Cache

Hidden : 1/26/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

One of a series of seven caches near to old Cornish mines between St. Day and Redruth. Find six (Cathedral, Wheal Grambler, St. Aubyn, Wheal Lily, Wheal Gorland and Wheal Damsel mines) and retrieve co-ordinates for the seventh (West Wheal Damsel mine).

Please do not take cars down tracks and bridleways. Park at a sensible place and walk!


Wheal Grambler mine

Wheal Grambler mine, formerly known as East Wheal Sparnon, was worked between 1792 and 1798 and again between 1805 and 1808. Wheal Grambler was amalgamated with St. Aubyn mine in 1834, which included North Wheal Grambler mine. Finally, known as St. Aubyn United, it had raised over 12,500 tons of copper ore, and closed in 1893.

The area to the south on the opposite side of the track to the cache location was the store yard for materials used in the mine and also for the ore recovered. Little remains of the engine house and the site is inaccessible, go along the track to the east, the engine house was to the north just before the track turns north.

Bonus co-ordinate B = How many years did this mine work as East Wheel Sparnon in the 1700s?

Please bring pen or pencil. You are looking for a screw lid container.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgvyr

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)