Interlune builds on partnership with equipment company to lay the groundwork for moon infrastructure

Article notes Interlune is working with the Mines on the design of an implement that could be used to dig trenches or excavate lunar soil.
July 30, 2026

Colorado has 3 of world’s top 400 universities, U.S. News says

Article notes Mines ranked as the top university in Colorado in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent ranking of colleges and universities in the U.S. In the magazine's global rankings, four other Colorado universities placed ahead of Mines.
July 30, 2026

Colorado’s 150th birthday is up in flames. What does this mean for the future of wildfires?

Article references new study by Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist and assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, that predicts how snowpack will be impacted by climate change.
July 29, 2026

Drawn by helium-3, lunar mining companies prepare for initial missions

Chris Dreyer, professor of practice in the space resources graduate program, explained the most likely source for helium-3 on the moon is from ilmenite, a titanium-iron oxide that absorbs the gas.
July 29, 2026

Silicon Valley’s empire state of mines

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, says that Silicon Valley can pour all the capital it wants into new-age mining: It won't change the fact that it's a tough industry plagued by a shrinking labor pool.
July 28, 2026

Physicists disprove decades-old Richard Feynman theory on 'silly' sprinklers

Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, was a collaborator on a new study that disproved the age old "silly" sprinklers theory.
July 27, 2026

La Plata joins DOE mineral AI research

Metallic Minerals Corp.'s La Plata project has been selected as one of two initial test systems for a U.S. DOE-supported research initiative led by Mines to apply AI to critical minerals exploration.
July 27, 2026

AI's hidden mineral crisis: The next bottleneck isn't chips-it's the industrial supply chain

Morgan Bazilian co-authors this piece which notes that for several strategic minerals—plus rare earths—the greatest supply risk lies in processing, not geological scarcity.
July 26, 2026

Water hauling is the new chore no rancher asked for

Adrienne Marshall's study found climate change made the drought in the Western U.S. 14 times more likely in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Marshall is a computational hydrologist and an assistant professor of geology/geological engineering.
July 25, 2026

Severe lack of snow this past winter made more likely by global warming

NPR's Mountain West News Bureau interviewed Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist, about her PNAS study looking at the recent drought across the west.
July 23, 2026

Climate horrors in Colorado are no longer just a threat. They’ve arrived.

This article notes that a new Mines study found that climate change makes snow drought about 14 times more likely in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
July 23, 2026

Ryan Warner, Lisa Hidalgo discuss Mines drought study

Ryan Warner, host of Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio, and Lisa Hidalgo, forecasters at 9NEWS, discuss a new Mines study that found droughts across the west are far more likely due to human-caused climate change.
July 23, 2026