| 11. | Heavy machinery required for hard quartz mining had to be brought via the Waihou River and up to Paeroa.
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| 12. | Quartz mining attracted more people in the 1870s and the population climbed to a peak of 206 in 1896.
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| 13. | From 1854, the focus of the miners turned to quartz mining with the discovery of the Poverty Reef.
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| 14. | There is also archaeological evidence of ancient copper trading, prehistoric quartz mining, and stone tool making in the area.
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| 15. | Bullarook was home to the William Tell Quartz Mining Co ., a gold mining company which was active until 1865.
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| 16. | On Monday, they practiced room-to-room, building-to-building warfare at an abandoned quartz mine.
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| 17. | In November 1860 there were 4, 500 men employed in quartz mining, more than any other field at that time.
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| 18. | With time, major placer and quartz mining declined, followed by the departure of most of the population of Belleville after 1870.
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| 19. | When gold was discovered in the area during the mid 1800s, extensive alluvial and reef mining, quartz mining and gravel quarrying began.
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| 20. | Manitoba also has prehistoric quartz mines to the far north, and evidence of ancient quartz mining also exists along the Winnipeg River area.
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