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Business engineering teaches STEM-minded undergraduates to be industry leaders

Explore business engineering at Mines—where technical skill meets entrepreneurial thinking to solve real-world industry challenges.

Business engineering teaches STEM-minded undergraduates to be industry leaders

Arthur Lakes Library honored as 2025 Library of the Year by U.S. Government Publishing Office

Mines honored with flown space memento from Lockheed Martin Orion leaders

Robert Johnston joins Payne Institute for Public Policy as senior research fellow

Potential Gas Committee reports 15 percent increase to future natural gas supplies in the United States, the highest reported level on record

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

Snow melts earlier in burned forests, new Science Advances study finds

News Headlines

arthur lakes library building in front of foothills in fall

September 25, 2025

Arthur Lakes Library honored as 2025 Library of the Year by U.S. Government Publishing Office

President Johnson, Paul Anderson and others pose with Orion artifacts on football field

September 25, 2025

Mines honored with flown space memento from Lockheed Martin Orion leaders

September 17, 2025

Snow melts earlier in burned forests, new Science Advances study finds

Mines Magazine

July 9, 2025

Economist turned energy leader: "Coming to Mines was the first step"

June 25, 2025

In a career path fueled by endurace, Mines alum starts athletic performance business

June 24, 2025

New fellowship program helping to turn Mines faculty research into startup reality

Videos

Rendering of the future Mines–USGS Energy and Minerals Research Facility, showing a modern, multi-story building with large glass windows, elevated walkways, landscaped terraces, and people walking around the exterior plaza at sunset.

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

Two Colorado School of Mines students wearing safety vests, hard hats, and headlamps examine the rock ceiling inside the Edgar Experimental Mine using a mounted inspection camera. The underground setting is lit with work lights, revealing rough stone walls.

Colorado School of Mines is shaping the future of mining

A gloved hand holds a small metal scoop of processed mine tailings in a laboratory setting. Behind it, lab equipment and a mixing drum are visible. Overlaid text reads: “Rebuilding with Mining Waste – Inside the lab.”

VIDEO: Mines researchers turn mine tailings into high-performance construction materials

Research

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

Snow melts earlier in burned forests, new Science Advances study finds

Molybdenum mine in the mountains seen from above

Media tip sheet: Economics of critical minerals

In The News

US copper tariffs clash with refining bottleneck

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, notes that China is hard to compete with in the copper arena due to state support.

October 2, 2025

Meet the microbes that munch mountains of mining waste

Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, is quoted about her study published in Science that demonstrated much of the United States' critical minerals demand could be satisfied through reprocessing mine waste.

October 1, 2025

Do you know where your well water comes from? A look into aquifers in Southern Colorado

Lesley Sebol, groundwater program manager for the Colorado Geological Survey, and Matt Sares, senior researcher for the Colorado Geological Survey, discuss the aquifers in Southern Colorado.

October 1, 2025

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