Wheal Lily mine Traditional Cache

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 Lily mine

Wheal Lily included Wheal Trefula and Wheal Cupid which lie to the north of St. Day Road. The mines were worked for copper ore in the 1850s and 60s, but production was limited and the fluctuation of tin prices and the development of open tin mining in Malaya caused many smaller mines, like Wheal Lily, to close. Many miners lost their jobs and emigrated from Cornwall all over the world to find mining work. It is estimated that 250,000 Cornish migrated abroad between 1861 and 1901.

Today, there is little evidence of the mines apart from a mound of mine waste in the field to the north east of the cache site.

This cache takes over from Redruth Roamers' Trail of the Lonesome Pine now archived. Thank you Andrew.

Bonus co-ordinate E = When Weal Lily closed it is likely that some of its miners emigrated along with the estimated 250,00 miners from Cornwall between 1861 and 1E01

Please bring pen or pencil. You are looking for "rockouflage" container.