Early next year, chemists and engineers led by the Golden university will start attacking those barrels with nine different potential methods for removing the contamination, in search of solutions for hundreds of tainted sites across the country.

A project headed by the Colorado School of Mines to test the best clean up methods for PFAS-contaminated materials is set to begin next summer on Schriever Space Force Base.

The largest Colorado award was $167 million for a new Energy and Minerals Research Center being built at the Colorado School of Mines.

A team of scientists at the Colorado School of Mines alongside other major universities will be testing out soil purification technologies at Schriever Space Force Base

“You’ve got these two [sets of countries] sort of playing by different rules, and so it’s been polarized, although China has not completely been in disagreement with Artemis,” said Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Colorado School of Mines Space ....

Dinos and burros and rocks, oh my! The Mines Museum of Earth Science isn’t usually this scary. It transformed into a spooky scene at its annual Spooktacular, hosting more than 1,000 people, including 600 youngsters, most of them decked out in ....

And while flaky, blackish-gray graphite won’t be involved in a lot of marriage proposals, it is key to many types of manufacturing. “From steelmaking to semiconductors to electric vehicle batteries,” said Morgan Bazilian, a professor at the Colorado ....

A study by Ian Lange of the Colorado School of Mines considers the potential—and challenges—for a fledgling industry that might reach a significant scale in the next several decades, driven by the demand for critical metals used in electronics, solar ....

Roel Snieder, W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Professional Development Education, wrote this essay about his approach to being a scientist and a teacher.

Chemicals like PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS are "for all intents and purposes correctly labeled as forever chemicals ," said Christopher Higgins, a leading U.S. expert on PFAS and a distinguished professor at the Colorado School of Mines.

“It really just comes down to its economics and if they can do it at scale, and until they do that, it’s hard to know,” said Jordan Lee Calderon, a critical minerals and sustainability researcher at the Colorado School of Mines.

The mining industry has "garnered a bad reputation, and certainly, some of that is understandable," according to "The State of Critical Minerals Report 2023," released by the Colorado School of Mines' Payne Institute for Public Policy on Sept. 26.