JEFF KEENER
CEO
Jeff is the CEO, president and treasurer. Keener has more than twenty-five years of continuous experience in exploration of mineral deposits in remote regions of Alaska and the Great Basin of North America, as well as concessions in Tanzania, Colombia, and Chile. Keener has been directly involved with the location and development of numerous (>20) productive placer gold mines in Alaska.
For twenty-five years, Jeff Keener has prospected the Alaskan bush, the desert southwestern United States, the African veldt, and the hills of South America, seeking paystreaks of placer gold. After a stint in the US Coast Guard that took him from the Caribbean to Greenland to Alaska, during which he took part in numerous search and rescue operations, Jeff graduated from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology.
While attending UAF, Jeff recognized an unfilled niche within the mineral industry and began his consulting business, performing exploration programs for small, private companies and family mining operations.
For two decades, he operated as a sole proprietor, specializing in ferreting out deposits of precious metals located in modern or ancient stream beds that were missed by earlier prospectors and miners.
In 2006, Jeff expanded his business to include managing both placer and lode exploration programs to further integrate the genetic relationship between the placer deposits found on the valley floors and their sources in the bounding hills and mountains.
Jeff has developed an exploration model for very large placer deposits leading to the identification of a number of potential multi-million ounce gold deposits in Basin and Range geological environments. More recently, Jeff and his team defined 250,000 ounces of coarse gold at a placer gold deposit in the southern Brooks Range of Alaska, defining more than 250,000 ounces of coarse gold.
Jeff Keener has been directly involved with recovery of over 50,000 ounces of placer gold and discovery of over 350,000 new ounces. Currently Jeff is managing Metallogeny's mining operation in Nome as well as managing a range of exploration projects for mining companies and family operations.