| 1. | The remaining miners engaged in the more difficult Quartz reef mining.
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| 2. | Gold prospecting for quartz reefs has never found payable reefs.
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| 3. | The quartz reefs were mined from the early 1860s until the 1880s.
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| 4. | The initial returns from the quartz reefs were significant.
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| 5. | When the alluvial gold ran out, mining turned to quartz reef mining.
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| 6. | At Beaconsfield, gold is mined from a quartz reef in a fault.
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| 7. | They soon found and secured another seven more gold-bearing quartz reefs.
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| 8. | Following the discovery of quartz reefs there were problems with attracting crushing machinery.
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| 9. | By the 1860s the alluvial gold was exhausted and a shift to quartz reef mining began.
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| 10. | Initially this was working alluvial deposits of gold but later focused on the mining of quartz reefs.
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