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'''Gold prospecting''' in Calaveras County began in late 1848 with a camp founded by Henry Angel. Angel may have first arrived in California as a soldier, serving under Colonel Frémont during the Mexican War. After the war's end, he found himself in Monterey where he heard of the fabulous finds in the gold fields. He joined the Carson-Robinson party of prospectors and set out for the mines. The company parted ways upon reaching what later became known as Angels Creek. Henry Angel tried placer mining but soon opened a trading post. By the end of the year, over one hundred tents were scattered about the creek and the settlement was referred to as Angels Trading Post, later shortened to [[Angels Camp]].
[[Placer mining]] soon gave out around the camp, but an extensive gold-bearing quartz vein of the area's Mother Lode was located by the Winter brothers during the mid-1850s, and this brought in the foundations of a permanent town. This vein followed Main Street from Angels Creek up to the southern edge of Altaville. Five major mines worked the rich vein: the Stickle, the Utica, the Lightner, the Angels, and the Sultana. These mines reached their peaks during the 1880s and 1890s, when over 200 stamp mills crushed quartz ore brought in by hand cars on track from the mines. By the time hard rock mining was done, the five mines had
The [[telluride (chemistry)|telluride]] mineral [[calaverite]] was first recognized and obtained in 1861 from the Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill, [[Angels Camp]], in Calaveras Co., California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindat.org/min-852.html|title=Calaverite: Calaverite mineral information and data.|website=www.mindat.org|access-date=March 25, 2018}}</ref> It was named for the County of origin by chemist and mineralogist [[Frederick Augustus Genth]] who differentiated it from the known gold telluride mineral [[sylvanite]], and formally reported it as a new gold mineral in 1868.<ref>American Journal of Science. (2). xlv, p. 314.</ref><ref>http://www.libraries.psu.edu/content/dam/psul/up/emsl/documents/circulars/circular27.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304225328/http://www.libraries.psu.edu/content/dam/psul/up/emsl/documents/circulars/circular27.pdf |date=March 4, 2012 }} Biographical paper on F. A. Genth</ref>
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