"You see that the political tides are in your favor as a mining person in the United States," said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute and professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

One area of opportunity for Harris on mining issues, if elected, may lie in advancing US mineral interests abroad, said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute and professor of public policy 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.