Faster permits alone won't build a U.S. clean-energy supply chain

Morgan Bazilian and Simon Lomax of the Payne Institute for Public Policy co-wrote this opinion piece with Dartmouth's Elizabeth Wilson about the importance of grassroots support for U.S. mining projects.
August 25, 2023

Low-Level Helicopter Flights to Image Geology Over Parts of Southwestern Colorado

The new geophysical data, along with geologic mapping by the Colorado Geological Survey and USGS, will be combined to develop high-resolution three-dimensional representations of bedrock composition and structure to depths more than 3,280 feet (1 ....
August 24, 2023

Colorado School of Mines freshmen march up Mount Zion in century-old tradition

The freshmen at Colorado School of Mines might be a little sore walking to class on their first day of school Monday. As part of an initiation tradition spanning more than a century, first-year students completed the M Climb on Friday, officially ....
August 21, 2023

This Friday Good News is brought to you by the letter M

Next with Kyle Clark asks the same question every Friday: What's your good news? Today we asked in Golden, at the Colorado School of Mines' traditional M Climb.
August 18, 2023

Two years after Colorado banned legacy admissions, the state’s public colleges and universities say the only real change is perception

“Legacies are still very much welcome,” said Jen Gagne, interim executive director of admissions for the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. “But the big thing is we don’t want students who don’t have those family connections thinking like ‘Oh it’s ....
August 18, 2023

Big Oil’s Talent Crisis: High Salaries Are No Longer Enough

Jennifer Miskimins, head of the petroleum engineering department at Colorado School of Mines, said Gregg’s graduating class is benefiting from a pickup in oil-industry hiring and many have gotten good internships. “They’re a hot commodity,” she said ....
August 6, 2023

Tackling the STEM Skills Gap in 3 Weeks

Justin Shaffer, teaching professor of chemical and biological engineering, and John Spear, professor of civil and environmental engineering, wrote this opinion piece about the first Field Session for Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering.
August 2, 2023

Denver’s Lockheed Martin to build nuclear reactor engine for spacecraft

“Nuclear thermal propulsion is an important technology if we're talking space exploration,” said Dr. Jeffrey King, a professor of nuclear engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in an interview with The Denver Gazette. “If we're going to get ....
August 1, 2023

Today's energy economy is building Colorado's zero-carbon future

Anna Littlefield, Morgan Bazilian and Simon Lomax of the Payne Institute for Public Policy wrote this opinion piece about how Colorado is ahead of the curve when it comes to the energy transition.
July 26, 2023

The Energy Transition Will Require Cobalt. America’s Only Mine Can’t Get Off the Ground.

In relatively small markets for critical minerals, it remains unclear if Washington will be able to jump-start investment or have to settle for subsidizing projects that can’t stand up on their own, said Rod Eggert, an economics professor at the ....
July 22, 2023

Gem Hunters Found the Lithium America Needs. Maine Won’t Let Them Dig It Up

“If we’re talking about critical metals and materials, we’re so far behind that it’s crazy,” says Corby Anderson, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines. “It’s the dichotomy of the current administration—they have incentives for electric ....
July 17, 2023

Minnesota locked in global dilemma: More copper and nickel are needed, but mine development slow

"We are terrible and very slow at building infrastructure of any kind," said Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines. But given the mining industry's history, tribes and environmental groups have reason for ....
July 15, 2023