New South Wales - 23/02/10-30/04/10

[Frances]

Cadia?

[ALBION1881]

Hillgrove gold mine Armidale NSW.

[trainfreak8495]

are we even close?

[trainfreak8495]

are we even close?

[Ikarbus]

No to Armidale & Cadia.

My cryptic clue is: "Ulan" was a close guess, but not geographically speaking!

[Frances]

It's nothing to do with the puzzle, but I was just checking a few things and came across something called the Peculiar Knob Iron Ore Project

[Frances]

Araluen?

[Newcastle Flyer]

I'm not sure what the mine names are, but is it a mine around the Muswellbrook?

[Ikarbus]

Not Araluen or Muswellbrook

[ALBION1881]

North Parkes mines Ulan.

[Ikarbus]

Nope

[Frances]

I'm beginning to wonder if it might be a quarry rather than an open cut mine - Bombo quarry maybe?

[ALBION1881]

Silica sand mine East Ulan.

[Ikarbus]

Not Ulan and not Bombo, although we did visit Bombo quarry too on the same trip!

I'm beginning to wonder if it might be a quarry rather than an open cut mine - Bombo quarry maybe?

In fairness this location is usually referred to as a quarry, however mine and quarry are interchangeable terms - even the employees and managers I spoke to whilst there referred to it as a mine - sorry for the confusion.

[Centralian]

I'll take a guess and say the Penrith Lakes Scheme quarry.

[Frances]

Kulnura Quarry?

[C130]

Somersby sand mines?

[Ikarbus]

No to Penrith, Somersby & Kulnurra

[Ikarbus]

OK I think I've exhausted everyone's imagination, so as to stop you looking up lists of mines/quarries in NSW the answer is:

Blue Circle Southern Limestone Quarry in South Marulan

My cryptic clue is: "Ulan" was a close guess, but not geographically speaking!

Because the correct location was South MarULAN

[trainfreak8495]

well done mr Kryptic.

[ALBION1881]

And a headache what we need is after two or four guesses a clue should come in not to easy but some sort of clue that is close or near to the area something maybe we can work on.

[Frances]

Let's hope the next one is a bit easier - but not too easy - you want it to be a bit of a challenge............

[shovelyjoe]

That was a great one, Ikarbus. Good to see a real head-scratcher posted here recently.

[Newcastle Flyer]

Busrider, I hope you don't mind if I make it a clickable image, as for some reason Flickr cuts quite a bit of the photo off when using just the IMG tags, and Fotopic limits the size, making it a bit too small.

Okay where is set S6 on what became a rainy day?

[745-Castle Hill]

Asquith?