Only three principal quartz reefs were located in the area with reef mining activity principally concentrated within the southern catchment of the North Palmer River and south to the Palmer itself.
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At its peak in May 1894 there were more than 12, 000 miners on the goldfields, digging deep vertical shafts and tunnels to access the quartz reefs which contained the gold.
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Slee had earlier moved on to the new goldfield at Grenfell, writing Lawson to join him, where their quartz reef mining claim, named The Result, was also unrewarding.
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Most of the gold mining here was in quartz reefs, which necessitated the miners making holes for blasting in the walls and ceiling of mine shafts using a steel rod drill and sledgehammer.
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The arrival of a five head stamp battery in 1869, led to a subsequent improvement in returns from the quartz reefs providing the miners with the impetus to develop a more permanent township.
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The population soon dwindled as the easily won alluvial deposits became exhausted but, as early as 1859, quartz reefs had been discovered which resulted in the permanent settlement of a few thousand miners and businessmen.
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The initial recovery of platinum in South Africa took place on several of the large East Rand gold mines and the first separate platinum mine was a short lived venture near Naboomspruit that worked very patchy quartz reefs.
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The initial alluvial gold was rapidly played out, but quartz reefs bearing the precious metal were discovered by Thomas Logan in 1863 and a large number of mine shafts were sunk into the rock during the 1860s.
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Two Post Offices were opened, Pleasant Creek on 19 October 1857 and Quartz Reef, Pleasant Creek on 1 June 1859 . In 1858 diggers opened the Great Western goldfield, which was worked by some 9, 000 prospecters.
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By 1899, Porter was the manager of the BB Quartz Gold Mining Company on BB Creek on the Walhalla, one of the mines digging Victoria s richest gold-bearing quartz reef with shafts over 3, 300 feet deep.
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