THE CLARA MINE AT KESWICK, CALIFORNIA.

On this episode of Exploring Shasta County History, Jeremy takes you on another exciting mining adventure with his friend, Ralph Bentrim. This former mining property embraces Ralph's property at Keswick. This mining property is a former Au (gold) mine called the Clara which has been developed in parts to allow the Sacramento River Trail to traverse over it. Mining activities has been idled here for many years. The mine is noted as a small producer of gold which was last owned by private parties in 1974. According to county reports it had three parallel veins hosted in granite porphyry, a payshoot of 20 in. wide, 160-feet long, which carried free gold. It also featured a 700-foot adit. Today, the former mining property includes open pits covered in vegetation, a plugged adit and plugged shafts. Check it out, and please subscribe to Exploring Shasta County History, and my YouTube channel.

Above: a plugged shaft of the Clara mine. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on May 27, 2021.

THE ADVENTURE: 

Filmed on location May 27, 2021.

RESOURCES:

Mines and Mineral Resources of Shasta County, Siskiyou County, and Trinity County, by G. Chester Brown, ©1915 published by California State Printing Office.

Mines and Mineral Resources of Shasta County, California – County Report 6 – by Philip A. Lydon and J.C. O’ Brien ©1974 by California Division of Mines and Geology