PICK AND SHOVEL Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By Cruzzzinaround on 11-Dec-05. Waypoint GA0279

It will take a long time for this landscape to recover. TFTC Cruzzzinaround.

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Thanks for bringing us here

A lunch stop on our way home

GrimRaider and I stopped off to check out the mine today but it was too hot to do the earthcache so we just grabbed this cache. We plan to come back to have a look in cooler weather. TFTC

Day 19 of our outback adventure which included QOGM 2019.
Thank goodness for GCA caches as the journey would have been quite boring
TFTC Black Bunny

Day 24 Mainland trip
Stopped with the geovan in tow to visit the Peak Hill Mine. A very interesting place. TFTV

Nice a quick one as I head to get to Narromine to set up camp. Glad I took a moment to check out the hole!

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Spent a few hours here on our way up north, destination to be the QOGM events at Barcaldine.
Very interesting location and lovely walk. TFTC Cruzzzinaround.

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very interesting and alot of information boards telling about history of mine. great walk up hill but we have to head home.

The area is obviously under re-development. It has some excellent walks with lots of educational billboard stops and safe lookouts. The tracks are well made and the gradient is quite low for a hill. If you decide to do this take the photo with you because the tracks need more directional signs.

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We stopped by here to visit the site and locate the caches. We are on our way to the Alexandra event in Victoria. TFTC

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My first GCA find. Still travelling home from a great trip which startd in March and has involved all the states except Tasmania - so far. Thanks for this cache Cruzzinaround, did the walk and talking the talk. Now to work out how to add photo.

#GA1656 - 16:55; Day 30 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune, albida33 and fitzy_1965. Today was a shorter run from Nyngan to Nevertire, Warren, Trangie, Narromine and on to Dubbo before heading to Parkes for the night. Sdl and I decided to spend the rest of the day in and around Dubbo and left our fellow cachers in Narromine. After collecting quite a few caches in Dubbo, we were passing through Peak Hill on our way to Parkes for the night. Stopped off to grab a snap here while we waited for our compatriots to rejoin us for the final leg. TFTC Cruzzzinaround

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Grabbed while on the way home from the Alice Springs event. Found the required photo and soon had my taken....

Thanks for the virtual.....

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My phone is my gps. what an amazing site is so big but pales in comparison to another mine i saw recently although it was different kind. Good to learn about it too.

Found on a geocaching trip to Forbes today. There were 2 signs with aerial views at this spot, so i took a photo of the newer one.
TFTC

myself and my little on where on our way out to Trangie for the long weekend to visit the fam
so i had to stop and grab this thank you so much, the little one wants to go back so we will be

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Passing through and stopped here for the earthcache. Very interesting site, we enjoyed our visit here. Thanks Cruzzinaround.

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Found on the NSW leg of our Round Aust trip
After staying a few days in Dubbo and a huge day at the Zoo Saturday, backed up again Sunday for another big day. I got to feed a Giraffe as it was my birthday lol. Monday we stayed an extra day for a rest day and to catch up with clothes washing and to try and get the kids to do some school work, LOL!.
TFTC
Today we headed down to Forbes where I used to live when I was a kid. On the way we stopped here at the old mine for a quick look and ended up spending at least an hour looking around at all the exhibits.

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Ran around this one too close to dark but had fun anyway.

A last minute decision was made to stop here and do this cache and the earth cache. Although the stop took more time than we allowed we were glad we made the effort. Thanks, a top spot.

WanderingAus wandered by on day 113 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, making our way from Darwin towards Perth via Mount Isa, Townsville, Emerald, Goondiwindi, Gunnedah and Wentworth.

After a night at the Peak Hill Caravan Park TomTom alerted me to the presence of this cache, so I headed over and the WanderingMrs took the requisitie photo.



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T4TV Cruzzzinaround
Keith

Was here doing the EarthCache and decided to do this one too.

A quick leg stretch on the way to Albury/Wodonga

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Stopped here because of the nearby EarthCache and then realised there was this virtual here.

The location was informative, and the walks around the pits provided good views.

Thanks for the cache.

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Found after staying overnight in Peak hill on the way to Toowoomba. I must say I never expected anything "touristy" around here, it's amazing what you find when there is a geocache next to it. It was blowing a gale and my wifes hayfever was playing up so we didn't get to have a good look around the site but we saw the main pits and got a few photos.

Found at 3.55pm - only 5 minutes to do a walk before they supposedly lock the gate. Came by here about 8 years ago, and at that time they were still operational AND you had to pay to do the site viewing - much better on the pocket now that it's free. TFTC

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Passing on my way home from a trip up north it was good to check out an area that I have driven past most times. The walk to do the GC Earthcache was fantastic and the holes on the ground are really quite impressive. Thanks

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It was raining when I got here so just took a picture out of the window. Would be great to see from above. TFTC

Had a walk up to look into the big hole with the Little Fuddleys. Did not stay too long as it was cold and raining. Nice history of the area all the same.

TFTC

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Found at 1040. Very messy around the area. Gaeopen but untidy and unkempt. Information boards very interesting reading. TFTC

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came here when i was a young girl growing up with my school, long time ago lol, thanks for bringing us here shame it was closed.

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Well finally have a photo to log this cache
Thanx

We did this as part of our Father's Day Caching drive... It's a Bugger that it has been closed to the public. Thanx anyway.

Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1330 on a warm sunny day.Unfortunately there was no entry as the gates and kiosk were all locked up until the next school hoilidays.It would have been good to look at the site for this history.
Tnx for the chase.

Wow! very interest - what pity, didnt open until Easter time. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Unfortunately this area was closed when I pulled in, Still managed to take the required pick. sorry about the pic but hard to take when ones travelling solo. Thanks keener

We've been through this town many times and have never visited this area, but unfortunately with time constraints and it being 7-30 pm we still haven't. After reading about the area it's definitely on our to do list next time through.
All we can say is it must have been a BIG pick and shovel
Thanks for bringing us to this fascinating location

Our first venture out for a while and we started with this. Nice spot, pity it was closed. Guess we'll have to come back when it's open and have a look around inside the fence (or.....we could jump the fence when it's closed and look anyway.....)


Thanx Cruizinaround