Coalbrook Traditional Cache
QvdM: Cannot maintain the cache. Have moved to Cape Town
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On the 21 January 1960, a tragic disaster occurred at the Coalbrook North Colliery of the Clydesdale (Transvaal) Collieries Limited. Regarded as the worst disaster in South African mining history, a subsistence of rock trapped 437 miners. Despite nearly two weeks of rescue efforts, none of the men survived.
Sadly the mine is now in disuse and nothing remains on the spot were the shaft used to be. A nearby "old timer" told me the cement slabs at the spot were the cache is used to be the foundations of the mineshaft. As per this "old timer" the shaft was filled up after the disaster.
Being the worst mine disaster in South African history there are surprisingly little written and recorded of the disaster. I could not find any monument for the men that lost their lives in this disaster.
The cache is close to a small tree on the site believed to be where the shaft used to be. A nice container little bigger than a film canister. It contains a log sheet, pencil and sharpener, but to find it you will be looking for something bigger.
NOTE: Area is safe! No open shaft exists. Common sense should prevail as nearby is old broken down fencing etc. So do not let your family wonder or play too far!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ernq gur ybt.