Unknown Miner Rushworth, Victoria, Australia
By WeAreGleesos on 25-Oct-21. Waypoint GC9HPTX

Out and about on a Victorian Rogaining Championships. What a great area. Last cache home. Thanks for placing the caches. TFTC

Such a lovely secluded area and such a peaceful spot to be buried. Imagine knowing the circumstances and name of this person and how and why they were buried here. Who knows just another great reason to place a cache nearby so he or she can be remembered. Thanks WeAreGleesos.

Quite strange, almost disturbing, definitely interesting !TFTC from

Found with ilukaperi. Sorry for the late log, only just catching up now.

Camping weekend with day1976, I do love the old mining areas! We visited the unknown miner and found the cache hiding nearby.

Travelling to Canberra for the mega, we couldn't pass up this cache. What an interesting spot. Must have been loved by someone to build such a grave. Thanks for bringing us here. Favourite point from us

Found with Bogonghazy on our way home from a weeks holiday at Numurkah. Thanks for placing the geocache

Quick find with LittleBoss2 while heading back to Bendigo. Thanks We Are Gleesos, another place we world never have found without caching

Find number 12913 at 2:54:33pm on Tuesday the 6 February 2024I'm off on a mini camping trip, well, for a week anyway, free camping on Majors Creek not far from Nagambie. Generally veging but doing some geocaching as well in my spare time Today I am off for a drive through Heathcote to Bendigo and then back through Tooleen and Whroo.Found at the end of a little bit of narrow 4x4 track driving between the main dirt roads.**Thanks for placing this cache WeAreGleesos**---Don't miss finishing the Ballarat GeoTour before it ends on 4th March 2024. A list of the geocaches can be found [here](https://coord.info/BM9GWJ5). The final GeoTour Event is the [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) on the 18th February 2024!You can also get prepared for the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards by checking out our preliminary lists [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/).

First cab off the rank for the day! What a glorious day to be out exploring this beautiful place.Had found all of these back in 2018, in another life.Decided to trek out here in my comfortable new asics that dont hurt my feet. I deserve asics!TFTC

TFTC! 26 December 2023 7:36:05pm 6599 really enjoyed our walks around here today! Peaceful except for a couple of locals going past. Another great find!

#20 on my geobiking adventure with Flyfattybatty. I wonder how many unknown miners perished around here. Many thanks for showing us the grave

Found

Tftc nice Sunday drive. Unfortunate they are unknown.

Little detour from the Whroo 21 but a nice little peaceful spot.

Went away for my birthday weekend to the rushworth area in the forest. Grabbed a heap of caches in the area over the weekend and left a trackable in one of them. TFTC's

I am constantly surprised by what you find in this bush land. Thanks for bringing us here.

Quick find with minimal tech, no other way many would find this, TNLN TFTC

TFTC

These are the sites we love to find. Thankyou for bringing us here!

Dropped in to say hello to old mate lying here. Caching seems to take me to lots of graves, it makes me wonder how many caches ill find before i die.

This cache presented an excuse to enjoy a drive through the forest in search of a bit of history
And after a few zigs and zags I reached this graveside location.
A peaceful place to take a rest
Though I wasn't intending to rest as long as this miner has [:o]

The cache was found nearby,
and still in mint condition

TFTC

Fltf

Quick easy find TFTC

A short stroll through the bush and we soon had cache in hand
Tftc

Very interesting. In the middle of nowhere. TFTC

Absolutely lovely spot a little bit of history to the unknown miner

Tftc

Mr Riddell proclaimed when we got here and spotted the hide“ now that’s a drive by”!
A very quick park and drive.
TFTC

Fantastic cache and we took trackable and it is our 100,th geocache!

Congratulations on your first hide WeAreGleesos. Out with Crustyvarmint today, he was keen to pick up this cache. The drive from the last cache to this one was slow going, and I was starting to think Crusty was luring us out to a place to do us in. Maybe we took too long to find the last cache, but we finally arrived and paid our respects to this Unknown Miner.

We struck gold, or at least found the cache.

Thank you WeAreGleesos for bringing us to this location today.

I had found all the caches through this area, and then this appeared, so I had to return. Today, while out caching with Knight_shift, we swung by and visited the unknown miner. I hope he was successful in his hunt for gold. He lies at peace.
Thank you for showing us this interesting site, WeAreGleesos.

What a nice spot. Made a quick find after taking in the scenery. Tftc

Tftc most rustic grave I've seen , thanks for bringing us here.
Discovered TB

21 January 2022
3:13 pm
1504
Many thanks WeAreGleesos for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Congratulations on your first hide WeAreGleesos! I was planning to save this for a milestone but couldn’t wait any longer!

I was surprised to see the quality of the grave. Definitely a story to be told. Thanks for bringing me out here to see it!

Dropped a tb to continue on its merry journey.

Traveling between Beechworth and Heathcote to visit the Dark Sky Site.
Grabbed a few caches and did some maintenance on the way.

What an interesting site. Love to know some history of it.
Thanks also for the maintenance you did at the Puddling Site.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found at 3.40pm whilst touring Rushworth SF. A lonely place to die.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Finally got to find the brother & SIL (WeAreGleesos) geocache! Loaded up the kids & put the learner driver behind the wheel to navigate us to ground zero. Geo baby couldn’t wait to find X Marks the spot, he was so excited to be finding the treasure! Walked in circles, tripped over a few times. Went over & checked out Unknown Miner’s grave. Walked some more circles! Bingo I spied it first! Signed log & took Lightning McQueen car for geo baby. Left something fishy for the next finder! TFTC, can’t wait to see what’s in store next. Cache dry & in good order ️

#4702 Found by Mr BGF in the area for work today. Have driven many tracks in this forest but can't recall ever seeing this grave. Thankyou for placing a cache to highlight this interesting and intriguing spot and TFTC WeAreGleesos.

It is so exciting to find these little mysteries when exploring gold mining bush areas. SL at 1.40pm Swapped pathtags - took one from the CO and Left: our deer pathtag - Mrs Harrowang’s forbears were gold miners in the Ovens Valley #8296 TFTC WeAreGleesos - great to say hello in person later in the day.

Nice

Good hiding place

Go past the grave

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Congratulations to WeAreGleesos for their first hide, and Lucypatrick for their first ftf. What a remarkable find this gravesite is. I can't believe all the years I have been prospecting in this area that have not come across this grave before. Dalerious and I finished work early today, so we jumped in the car and did what we do best, cache ! I hope this cache placement is the start of many more to come from you .

Last of the day for me found with catnap777 @7:15pm
(Cat' got one more on the way home. )

Making the most of an early knock off time, cat' and I headed for Rushworth to try our luck in gold country.
We struck it rich digging up a whole heap of caches in just a couple of hours and our appetite was satisfied by following the breadcrumb crumb trail through Moora before winding up here at the graveside of the Unknown Miner.
We timed our arrival here perfectly as a single shard of evening light broke through the forest canopy landing squarely on this lonely souls final resting place. [:o]

TFTC WeAreGleesos.
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FTF @ 1200HRS

Our FTF!!!!!!! I heard the ping of a new cache published close to home and baled the kids into hubby's ute in headed off. The track i picked was very rough and not one I would have normally driven on but I was on a mission. Got to GZ with poor signal so was searching for a while. Soon had my hands on the cache and FTF logged. TFTC. Congrats to Wearegleesos on your first hide.

First to Find @12:20 pm
Wooohoo
Congratulations to The Gleeson on your first hide.
I think I have been here before a wonderful piece of history

Log signed and replaced
Favourite point added