Videos

This video is about our annual Yuba River Trip. We just want to share our mining experience using small scale mining equipment and techniques. We had a blast making this video and found some good gold too.

This is a video on a Keene A52S high banker being converted into a battery-powered unit. The dual 2200 Gallon per hour pumps provide enough water to process a whopping 1 Yard Per Hour of material. You can create a silent high production system and maintain a low profile

Every Year Patrick Keene puts on an outing for his friends up on the Yuba River. Patrick goes shares some of his experiences over the two weeks and also goes through operations and set up on some of his favorite equipment. The Mini Max is featured.

This a video on our 160 Mini dry washer powered by the Makita blower XBV02PT1. We found this to be a great combination package allowing us to use it in a park around hikers horse etc and not disturbing anyone. The combination was ideal for working in public areas or locations you want to not draw any attention to yourself. The package worked flawlessly, easy, grief and free and peaceful. Dan and only had to drive 5 minutes and I only had to travel 25 minutes and we had a great time and found some decent gold. The Dust free dry washer really did its job well and the super quite Makita blower was a pleasure to work with.

Keene DW2 and DW212V Dry Washer. This is an old school bellows type dry washer that we have manufactured for over 50 years. This is powered by both hand crank system or the new upgraded 12-volt motor drive system. The new motor is more powerful, better adjustable speed control longer-lasting rebuildable, and lower amp draw. Keene engineering www.keeneeng.com 818 993 0411

Patrick Keene walks you through the setup, operation, and clean up of our A52S Super Sluice Box. This is the most advanced and highest production sluice available. Requires no classification for superior recovery. Pat goes through detailed steps by step, operation.

Keene's gold suction guns A23 and the A23. This is a quick guide on how to use and adjust the gold suction guns.

Keene Fire fighting system that uses your pool to save your home. This provided details on operation set up and how to maintain your system and keep in working properly for decades.

Keene's world-famous A52S does it all. Not only is it the best sluice box on the market today, it now converts into a Mini Max Sluice box system utilizing a 12-volt pump system. It also changes into a Gas powered High Banker and Dredge. This versatile package performs extremely well in all conditions. Now with the Mini Max upgrade, you can now run in low water conditions and silent running with the battery-powered pump or set it up at home with a water recirculating system. Made in the USA.
A52SMMKIT1 provides everything the converts your A52S into a Mini Max. A52SMMKIT2 Hopper screens and end cap.

Keene 151S Cloth Replacement. How to install cloth on a 151 or a 151S

Keene Engineering Mini Max sluice box, high banker concentrator in action. Patrick Keene 2019 annual Yuba river bash. We are using the Minimax metal detectors hand tools. We had a lot of fun!!

Keene Mini Max in action at Patrick's annual Yuba River Bash 2019. Patrick and a few friends working hard and finding some amazing gold. This is the first of three videos.

The amazing A52S sluice boxes can now be turned into a backpackable high banker and dredge. This one sluice box works extremely well in both fast water and slow water conditions. The folding hopper really does a great job breaking down and classifying the material into a slurry so sluice box can really perform. The dredge set up is simple and effective especially with the larger hopper and the updated riffles. Also, check out the new blaster hose assembly. "A Game Changer"

This is a custom 6" supermax dredge that we built for both super fine gold recovery, diamonds and gemstones. This dredge is equipped with a longer float and frame assembly, plus a 4-foot longer sluice box for gemstone recovery as well. We also cover a few basics on the supermax dredge.

This our latest testing on the Keene A52S High Banker Dredge combinaion. This is a upgraded A52S sluice box that is coverted into a powered high banker and dredge. This one piece of equipment provides hands down the finest non classifying sluice box in the world. The best high production back pack high banker dredge that handles the worst type of material such a clays hard packed. This outperforms all other machine out there due to the long classifier screen and superior spray bar design. The dredge also works very well due to the 1/4” classifying screen this really keeps the production high as well as the recovery. We have gone through many different types riffle designs and as well as rubber mats and screens. The combination of the different screen allows you to optimize the fine gold recover and high production levels in sluicing high banking and dredging. There are so many trick things that make the hole experience so much better.

This is our latest testing on upgrading our A52S sluice box. This is our first high production backpack high Banker dredge. The is designed to handle about 1/2 yard per hour with no problem even in stubborn clays and conglomerate rock. Can handle both a 2" or 2.5" dredge hose as well. Folds down for a small package making it perfect for backpacking into remote untouched areas.

How to service a P90G pump. Changing the pump seal.

This is our Keene A52S that we have converted into a Back Packable High Banker and Dredge. This add on hopper adapts to our A52, A52S, and even our Mini Max concentrator. We can now take our A52S and turn it into a high production high banker that should be able to process up to 1/2 of a yard per hour. The dredge package works amazing as well especially since we classifying the material down to 3/8 to 1/4"