Treuer's Treasure Moonta Mines, South Australia, Australia
By Dazzatron on 15-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WR2N

#24507. Thankfully we soon realized the coords on our Garmins were the published coords (so didn't waste too much time trying to make sense of the hint at that location). We entered the right coords and found the final was close by, so walked there. We encountered more interesting mining history along the way, and Troodles soon found the nicely hidden cache once we got to GZ. TFTC.

I had pre-solved this multi a while ago but had forgotten to update GSAK, so we arrived at the published co-ords thinking it was the final. When I looked at my phone, with the updated co-ords, I realised my mistake, so off we went to the final. The cache was not in the first place we looked but it was in the last!Great hide, excellent camo. TFTC.

TFTC Dazzatron your cache Treuer's Treasure that we found today. Day 2 in Moonta. We tackled the many caches in and around the Mine Heritage area and other caches as we passed by. 21 for the time invested was a good few hours well spent. Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining caches so we can explore these locations.Certainly discovering more about the area as we cache along.Find Count: 17801

This one took us a bit longer than what it should have. We did re check our coordinates and then soon found the cache. Great hide. TFTC

Tricky but great. TFTC

Found with LittleLeah79 while in Moonta for the day.
Fave point for this gem!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Found with Beaker, TFTC! This is cool!! Lots of thought put into this, awesome!

An excellent hide here - no wonder the log goes back to 2013. The hint made this a quick find, otherwise I could have been searching for a while. Fav point for this one!

Weekend away to Moonta with Pony1966. Nice hide, funky area.

TFTC

Found with Wal & Ol as we enjoy a caching getaway. Fave for the adventure and cache, Cache is in good condition, TFTC!

quick solve and find. Good work on the cammo. have a fav point. i do like the location.
Found with Mogni. Mogni wants to get to 20, 000 by the Rutherglen Mega in Victoria and make that event her 20, 000 th. So we went out to complete the " THE Sad Fisher series " and stay in Moonta for the night. We got 150 finds for the weekend even though we started out at lunch time Saturday. Any damaged caches found where replaced with a new container and any logs found full or almost full were replaced or a extra scroll added. The weather couldn't make up it's mind, over 30 on Saturday and it rained almost all of the way home.

To make things easier I took a photo of the sign and crunched the numbers parked a bit further in. It took a couple of minutes to locate the sneaky cache.

Thanks for the cache Dazzatron.

Not sure of we got the coordinates correct. Will try sharing tomorrow.

Took a bit of a search but finally walked away with a smiley
Found with Earthlight
Tftc

Found with The X-Trailers after lnch at Moonta Bay jetty. An interesting area to explore.
TFTC

Nice hide. Thanks

TFTC. Day 6 of honeymoon caching trip. Car fixed yesterday … gas cooker not working now! wrong connection type … so off to get that fixed!

Happy caching and safe travels!

No way would anyone get me going down that shaft. Wowsers. No wonder there were so many deaths in mines. Cache is all good. Bit tricky but I was impressed!

The usual Wednesday Wander for members of Befuddled Puzzle Solving Group had us heading back once again to the upper Yorke Peninsular in search of solved puzzles and anything else we came across. Today it was myself, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats. By the end of the day we had traveled over many km's , completed 10 lab caches, added to my ever expanding DNF list, made a FTF and many new solved puzzles caches located. As the sun set over the Moonta Mines it was time to head home, stopping for a few more caches of course.

A simple mutli as we started to lose the light. Coords aobtained it took a while to find the cache due to the great camo. But the time I finally found it by torchlight the sun had just about set giving us a spectacular show of colour. FP from me for the great hide. [:X]

***Thanks Dazzatron for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Today we attempted to complete the caches around Moonta we hadn’t already found.

Many thanks for this multi Dazzatron….a favourite point on it’s way

This cache was a pleasure to do as we collected the information needed and then at GZ what a wonderful hide. The cache is in good conditions and the co-ords, for us, are spot on. SL TFTC

Did not find looked everywhere

Didn't find

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird on route to Moonta for a couple of days. TFTC Dazzatron
Find #5147 at 10:25.

Thanks for hiding. Good to be having a look around the area. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Fav point alloc

Clever hide, favourite point ️

Travelling the Yorke Peninsula with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Today we are having a look around Moonta and Moonta Bay.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out hides and showing us your part of the world

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Dazzatron

Find # 2788

After a few try’s we found it!! Moonta completed for us!!! Great fun!! TFTC

Found 12/07/2021

TFTC

We had accommodation in Moonta for a few days, which gave us the luxury of exploring and caching at leisure.
We got the required numbers and new co-ords, but searched around for quite a while without luck. Not sure if we missed it because the soursobs are flourishing, or if we just have cache blindness.

Met up with e.gregory1 for the day to tackle the puzzle cache 'hook' component of the Gone Fishn' series while spending an extended long weekend over on Yorke Peninsula. We completed the 50 caches quicker than expected, so had plenty of time to travel up to Moonta in the afternoon to complete some of the multicaches in the area. Thanks for the cache Dazzatron!

Found with FeatherWaite while on a short trip to the Yorke Peninsula.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t too busy, although being on the last day of the Queens Birthday long weekend I guess most visitors to the area would have been on their way home.

Despite the forecast for possible showers, the rain held off and it was a beautiful day.

It didn't take long to gather the required information and calculate the final coordinates, then it was off to GZ for a quick find.

Thanks Dazzatron for the cache.

DNF maybe we are not experienced enough for the clues are not clear to us. Tried entering the clues in different ways but no luck

A quick find out caching with Little Blue Wren while staying at Maitland for a few days.A great hide.TFTC

TFTC.Found with moroldies.

First van adventure for our 2 adopted dogs - and first caching trip. Sneaky little hide TFTC

3rd DNF of 5, and only found 7. Had hoped to find all 19 we had left in Moonta but gave up as didnt want more DNFs. Most frustating day geocaching ever.

Looked for ages and no find.

A nice day out pottering around finding the odd cache as we go with Purrfect Di.
Team Mattycat stamp means the both of us were here today [8)]

Another one where the end didn't disappoint. Nicely done.

Thanks Dazzatron for placing and maintaining this cache on our map


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Sanitise and distance when caching. 2 hiking poles or a couple of snakes apart!
Keep smiling , preferably behind those masks! Enjoy

This was found as we wander this great country
While having a great day out
thank you Dazzatron for placing the cache

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet and bullitmuffin 91

Tftc! What an amazing piece of local history! Spent some time walking around having a look and admiring the builds.

TFTC
Out & about with Geo hubby Animal62 & BulletMuffin91 on this windy Sunday.
Thanks for bringing us to this location, reading up on the mines & actually seeing them has been great. The cache was soon in hand natter a quick search, the log signed and dated then returned to its hiding place.

Sorted the coords from the car and after exploring the ruins, found the cache .
Nice hide [^]. TNLNSL.
Thanks again Dazzatron.

Day 266 (Thursday 21st) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 4 for the day and 5557 for the trip. TFTC

Found whilst walking around Moonta. Loved these mine area wanders. TFTC

This was a great little multi, a simple calculator and off to GZ, the cache took a bit of finding, what a clever hide.

Today was a great day out, after staying in port Hughes for the night. I got up to collect a few caches around the area before I had a bike race in moonta. After racing was over I was in a mission to find my 10,000th find whilst making my way back to Adelaide. A great day out overall.

TFTC

A short wander around the digs soon had us at GZ, loved the hide, cache all in good condition
TFTC Dazzatron

We gathered the info. put the coords in to the GPS.
Let the GPS guide us to GZ.
A little search and the cache was found. Tftc

The usual Wednesday for the animals of the Puzzled Puzzlers. Plans were made for the Rat, Adder and Starfish to head to the top of the peninsular is search of a few previous DNF's and to fill the maps of Kadina and Moonta with smiling faces. An early morning call though from the Starfish letting us know that he was not well, left only the Rat and Adder to enjoy the day.

Another clever sneaky hide, we had seen this type before with one from the same CO.

TFTC

I think I recall finding a cache at this location on our previous visit twelve years ago. Collected the info, calculated gz and then found the clever camo. Thanks Dazzatron

Next time maybe

I am spending the weekend camping on the Copper Coast to get out of the city and to grab some caches in this as yet unexplored area.

Such interesting history around these parts. This was a really clever hide, so I am dropping a fav point.

Thanks for the cache.
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A huge weekend of geocaching with Mary from Aussie M & M. We got ourselves a lovely little cottage in Kadina and made this our base. So many caches and so little time we had to target certain ones that we felt were special enough to get a visit. As per normal we fixed any that needed some love so other could find them after us.
Great hide
Thanks to Dazzatron from mogni

Another highlight for our day and for more than one reason. It started off as we arrived in Moonta and headed straight to the gelato shop, yum, yum, yum and then this was Aussie M&M's 11,000 find and it was great to be there to celebrate with them. And of course the hide itself was great and fitted into the environment perfectly oh and of course the laughs had as Aussie Mary tried to take a selfie, we all got there in the end. TFTC Dazzatron

Day 4 of a dedicated geotrip from QLD to SA to tick off lots of boxes for Kestal and Mrs Esky...today we are slowly caching our way north to Moonta travelling in the company of Aussie M & M who are driving/navigating...this is the furthest west we travelled today and was our turn around point before heading back to Adelaide.

It was a hot, hot day today with temps in the high 30s. Aussie Mark had mentioned the Moonta Coffee Barn & Gelateria several times so at the previous cache the opening times were googled...we were in luck!!! Closing time was 5pm and according to google maps we would arrive at 4:35pm...which was spot on. This was the best decision all day...definitely a highlight...the banana toffee was my favourite!!

All refreshed we were back on target with this one set to be Aussie M & M's milestone cache. A great little multi with a cleverly hidden container. A fave point for sure. TFTC Dazzatron.

With good caching friend Anna (kestal) and new caching friend Di (Eskies5) down from Toowoomba for a 4 day caching trip targetting older caches, M & M realised a milestone was about to occur.
Well much scrambling occurred by Mary on Saturday night to get our logs up to date. The caching day was mostly all about Anna and Di's caching list with some very old caches on their list. We only needed 9 caches and at the last minute, Mark decided to join us for the day, as M & M like to do bigger milestones together. Looking at the girls running sheet, we knew Moonta was where we could do our 11,000th. It was a no brainer really... We had a multi by Dazzatron's near the mining area that all 3 of us had not done.
Well that was it, we headed here, to the first waypoint, found the details, did the math, and off to seek the cache. Mark had some cache blindness, lol, and with Anna's help, the cache was in hand.
We loved the elegant simplicity of this hide and how well it blended in here. The girls had down a few other Dazzatron caches earlier in the afternoon. We have new converted to the joy of finding Dazzatron caches.
TFTC Dazza, we loved, loved, loved it. A perfect milestone cache. And a favourite from us.

What a comedy of errors! Owl collected the information over 6 years ago, but a muggle family and maths inadequacy prevented a find. Today her GPS had Owl in a completely different location. A PaF gained a find... at which point her GPS agreed with the CO's calculations. Perhaps the copper is playing havoc with her reception?

Good hide. Found after doing some work at the Moonta Area School. TFTC

Day 4 of our rest, relaxation and rejuvination week, the relaxation side is going good with sight seeing of the mining and history areas a favorite for us all. 
Geocaching however wasnt on our side with multis always causing us arguements and what felt like a day of dnfs. But a great day out with fresh air and great sights. Tftc

Found with Bindi the geo pooch as we headed into Moonta! A great hide...…. creative...…. interesting location ….. spot on co ordinates. A favourite!!

Out today from our base at Moonta Bay, this was the first for the day and the one that gave us the International Caching Day souvenir.

An interesting place to explore and yet another great Dazzatron hide ! Thanks for the cache.

Interesting to explore this area and read about the history. Loved the hide. TFTC Dazzatron.

Today we explored Moomta and Wallaroo using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. A straight forward multi and an easy find at GZ and adding to our favourites..

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found while on holidays in Port Hughes with Cows with guns and co.
Thanks for the cache.

Staying at Port Hughes for a week it was only fitting that we sample some of the locally grown caches whilst here.
Thanks for the cache!

OMG how hard did we make thugs eventually deleted the cache and started again and with our 5th set of coordinates made the easy find. Yes this simple multi took us 5 attempts. TFTC really good

Completing a few multi caches in the anoints area today. A clever hide. TFTC

Hi there Dazzatron.

We found your cache **"Treuer's Treasure"** at 11:28:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 17256).

We cached around Moonta & Kadina today, & thoroughly enjoyed our tour around the area. We ended up finding a variety of container types and sizes hidden along the way. Today we found 6 caches (& DNF'd 4). Thank you for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

We awarded this cache a favourite point for the ingenious hide.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Visiting from Canberra to see my BFF for a week or so. We decided to head out to Moonta and grab a couple caches, in particular I was chasing the Virtual in Moonta as they are not so common here in Australia.

We visited a couple different shafts today while picking up the 5 geocaches. Nice little multi which didnt take too long to work out. Caching with KBKL, SixPak69, JJMW93 and GJW95 around Moonta. Thanks for bringing us here Dazzatron

Great puzzle. Tftc.

Found it. Nice one. TFTC

Found it

Awesome find

Found while caching with Team Waldron on a lovely Saturday. TFTC. A quick find which is always nice.

A quick find while out with Trail06.

Neat hide.

Tftc

Great hide!
Thanks for bringing me out to this place Dazzatron.

Find #1848

TFTC Dazzatron

The long weekend presented the perfect opportunity for my wige (Tounga) and I to plan a quick get away.
So, we booked some accommodation in Moonta and decided to cache the upper Yorke Peninsula.
We had a great time, finding 129 geocaches in all.
Thanks for hinding your cache Dazzatron, we enjoyed it.

I apologise for the generic log.

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Day fourteen of the short holiday with Bettyboo3747.
A day for breathing in the history of Moonta.
Lots of old mines, stone buildings, and rusting engineering stuff.
Great to see that a lot of the mines have caches at them, makes it so easy to locate them.
A very good hide here, liked it a lot.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 9471. Sadly, I only have one entire day in Moonta and there is so much to do and see. I love this historic area and definitely need to and will come back here. Tomorrow we head to Broken Hill for more adventures.

Loved this hide. Enjoyed the multi - I am having good practice at projections and maths this afternoon. We did admire the hide a lot. Nice work. Can't believe this has only 2 favourite points - let;s make it 3!!

Thanks Dazzatron

Found by Mary & David at 1035. A great little multi that takes you past some truly iconic Copper Coast ruins. Very interesting cache notes, too. Our thanks to Dazzatron.

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Enjoyed drive the car to see lovely our country (Proud). [^] [^]
Like simple multi - enjoyed myself.

Thanks for hide the cache for me to found it
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Spent the afternoon picking up a few stray caches around Moonta. Really enjoyed this hide, I was on the wrong side and saw the cache from there but it was Just Me Now who retrieved it. Loved this one, thanks Dazzatron.

My favourite hide of the day, very clever but fairly easy to find once you have done a few of Dazzatron's caches! Thank you once again Dazzatron!

Ooh yeah !!
Another great little Dazzatron cache chase to .... chase

And after gathering clues, I soon found a likely hiding spot and a familiar cache hiding method

Still sneaky after all these finds !!

TFTC

Catching up with late logs.
This is our last day of caching around Wallaroo with Alansee and Micaparamedic.

We pulled up at the required location and gathered the information and then did the math's and headed off towards gz. A little bit of a search later and we were soon adding our initials to the log. A muggle pulled up in the car park just as we were heading back to the car so our timing was perfect.

To save room in the logs we signed as M.A.C.( Micaparamedic Alansee and Team Crackers).
Thanks for the cache and a great hide, a favourite point from us.

On a caching assault of the Yorke Peninsular with alansee and Team Crackers over the last six days. We have found many caches which have proven enjoyable and sometimes challenging Alansee had worked diligently in planning routes we would take to minimize wasted kilometres driven to find the numbers we have been able to do. Most logs have been signed as MAC (micaparamedic, alansee and crackers)

Many thanks Dazzatron for placing this cache .

Found with Team Crackers and Micaparamedic. Well, after looking for quite a while I was beginning to doubt my maths! As well I should as it turned out that I couldn't count. However as luck would have it I found the clever hide after broadening my search a lot, and just as two of the others came back with the correct workings.

A very good hide here Dazzatron.

Today we are heading to the copper triangle to do some caches, we managed around 120 caches over the 2 days we spent here and we saw some fantastic scenery along the way, being the geowifes early childhood stomping grounds i was treated to a lot of history about quite a few of the areas and how much things have changed over time, this was a nice easy find. TFTC

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia after having attended Oz Mega.

Today was set aside for touring Moonta and Wallaroo. Well we had a long list and after a sleep in and problems loading the GPSr had us not even starting till 0900hrs.

We had a great day and saw lots of historic places and learnt lots about the area. The list was only just started and we never left Moonta till after dark so Wallaroo will have to be tomorrow.

All I can say is us and iluvtrekking both did the sums but we didn't all get the same answer initially Once we were all on the same page the cache was quickly located.

TFTC Dazzatron

On the road with FelixII discovering the Yorke Peninsula.

Today we spent a fantastic day in Moonta exploring the area of the Moonta mine an a bit of the surrounding countryside. We found some fantastic history and some very good hides in the surrounding area.

Another good multi, thanks for your cache Dazzatron.[/Black]

Frog math failed. Don,t ask. If it said east I did south. If it said first I did last. If it said two I did three. Eventually after a review of the data I arrived at the correct GZ. Interesting location. Thanks for the cache Dazz.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Out on a Maintenance run on my caches around Moonta.

Stopped in and confirmed this one is all good.

What a top spot and cache Dazza.

We loved the green rocks that abound. The numbers fell our way but we took it carefully.

No azurite seen today.

Thanks to Dazzatron and clear skies from TeamAstro.

This one had us in more ways than one but we eventually got through the prickle bushes and had it in hand. Very good. Thanks for the cache.

Last cache for the tapoles before taking them home and then we also started going home - enjoy the history of this area
TFTC

No problem getting the coordinates wrong for us this evening. A quick adjustment to the instrument and it led us straight to GZ. I was on the wrong side of the object in question initially, but Mrs J soon spotted the sneaky hide.

As the sun was about an hour from setting, and we had a certain puzzling cache to find, it was at this point we bee-lined it back to the coast for more caching adventures.

Thanks Dazza.

A missing number can put you a mile out...
But a bit of commonsense puts you right where you should be...
Thanks Dazz for the cache