“It is so uncertain where things are going,” said Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at Colorado School of Mines. “There are a lot of changes that can still happen. It is hard to call anything in a battery right now ....

Kenneth Osgood, professor of history at Colorado School of Mines, writes about the recent Chinese spy balloon and how the reaction to it is similar to the 1957 launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik.

Those urging lawmakers to stand firm on the supply chain targets in the bill say automakers are overplaying their potential to slow down the transition into zero-emission cars and SUVs. Among them is Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute ....

“Gold is used as a hedge against economic insecurity, and we’ve certainly seen a lot of that in recent years,” said Elizabeth Holley, an associate professor in the Colorado School of Mines’ department of mining engineering.

“The potential to recover rare earths from acid mine drainage and other streams in the coal production and combustion process represent an example of a broader set of potentially unconventional but transformative sources for securing access to rare ....

Claims designed to weaken international resolve to sanction Russia for invading Ukraine are classic communist propaganda, writes Colorado School of Mines history professor Ken Osgood in this opinion piece.

Brad Handler and Morgan Bazilian of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines wrote this opinion piece with Katie Auth of the Energy for Growth Hub.

“People are used to thinking about whether Alexa is listening in on their house, or what the Ring doorbell is capturing outside, but they might not realize that the existence of a camera on their vacuum could present those same types of concerns,” ....

Today, Mines is highly ranked in engineering, science, energy and environmental studies, and math, and it’s the toughest state university in Colorado to get into, with fewer than half of its applicants accepted.

Matthew Siegfried, a Colorado School of Mines professor, spent nine Antarctica summers setting up GPS field stations to take satellite measures to study Antarctic snowfall.