“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.

Drew Ruana, a professional rock climber and a student at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the proposed Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act and climbing provisions of the America’s Outdoor Recreation Act.

“The recent growth of machine learning and AI-like tools is advancing quite rapidly in geophysics,” noted Paul Sava, a professor and department head in geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, authored this opinion piece on two bills that would strengthen U.S. intellectual property rights and accelerate technological innovation.

Roderick Eggert, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, testified that the list helps guide public policy surrounding energy development and scientific research. “Why have a list? The simple answer – perhaps a statement of the obvious – is to ....

“They’re grabbing all the money they can,” said Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines.

The so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is projected to double the country's electricity supply and promises agricultural expansion. This has worried Egypt for years, and now that the dam is full and complete, the region confronts a new reality ....

“We're simulating a lunar mining operation and this test actually is going to take place over 15 continuous days,” Colorado School of Mines professor George Sowers said.

The Mines team partnered with a local aerospace company to compete for $1.5 million in funding from NASA that they would use to continue development of the rover.

The ARPA-E funding “will be the largest single investment in R&D of this nature worldwide,” says Yaoguo Li, a geophysicist at the Colorado School of Mines who plans to apply to the program. “It’s so new, a lot of other agencies and other countries ....

These are common reactions in communities across the West, where residents remember the days of played-out mines that were abandoned and then poisoned local waters, and where residents place the local environment over global concerns, said energy ....