11. Heavy machinery required for hard quartz mining had to be brought via the Waihou River and up to Paeroa. 12. Quartz mining attracted more people in the 1870s and the population climbed to a peak of 206 in 1896.13. From 1854, the focus of the miners turned to quartz mining with the discovery of the Poverty Reef. 14. There is also archaeological evidence of ancient copper trading, prehistoric quartz mining , and stone tool making in the area. 15. Bullarook was home to the William Tell Quartz Mining Co ., a gold mining company which was active until 1865. 16. On Monday, they practiced room-to-room, building-to-building warfare at an abandoned quartz mine . 17. In November 1860 there were 4, 500 men employed in quartz mining , more than any other field at that time. 18. With time, major placer and quartz mining declined, followed by the departure of most of the population of Belleville after 1870. 19. When gold was discovered in the area during the mid 1800s, extensive alluvial and reef mining, quartz mining and gravel quarrying began. 20. Manitoba also has prehistoric quartz mines to the far north, and evidence of ancient quartz mining also exists along the Winnipeg River area.
