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Mines and US Geological Survey expand critical minerals and energy research partnership with new joint facility

Mines and the US Geological Survey are deepening their critical minerals partnership with a new shared research facility opening in 2027.

Chemical and biological engineering faculty win NIH grants for early career investigators

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

Kyle Leach named American Physical Society Fellow

Mines PhD students win NASA awards for ocean research

5 Questions with George Saunders: What STEM students asked the acclaimed author and Mines alum

Business engineering teaches STEM-minded undergraduates to be industry leaders

Arthur Lakes Library honored as 2025 Library of the Year by U.S. Government Publishing Office

News Headlines

ramya kumar in lab coat and green gloves working in lab

October 14, 2025

Chemical and biological engineering faculty win NIH grants for early career investigators

lori tunstall in white lab coat and blue gloves holding a test tube

October 13, 2025

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

October 9, 2025

Mines PhD students win NASA awards for ocean research

Mines Magazine

July 9, 2025

Economist turned energy leader: "Coming to Mines was the first step"

June 25, 2025

In a career path fueled by endurace, Mines alum starts athletic performance business

June 24, 2025

New fellowship program helping to turn Mines faculty research into startup reality

Videos

Rendering of the future Mines–USGS Energy and Minerals Research Facility, showing a modern, multi-story building with large glass windows, elevated walkways, landscaped terraces, and people walking around the exterior plaza at sunset.

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

Two Colorado School of Mines students wearing safety vests, hard hats, and headlamps examine the rock ceiling inside the Edgar Experimental Mine using a mounted inspection camera. The underground setting is lit with work lights, revealing rough stone walls.

Colorado School of Mines is shaping the future of mining

A gloved hand holds a small metal scoop of processed mine tailings in a laboratory setting. Behind it, lab equipment and a mixing drum are visible. Overlaid text reads: “Rebuilding with Mining Waste – Inside the lab.”

VIDEO: Mines researchers turn mine tailings into high-performance construction materials

Research

Chemical and biological engineering faculty win NIH grants for early career investigators

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

Kyle Leach named American Physical Society Fellow

In The News

Study finds snow melts faster after wildfires

Arielle Koshkin, doctoral candidate in hydrologic science and engineering, discusses her study that demonstrated snow melts more quickly in burned forests.

October 17, 2025

Reimagining tailings

A Mines study published in Science Magazine that found the U.S. can find most of the critical minerals it needs in the waste piles from existing mines is referenced.

October 16, 2025

Leaders against proposed tax on licensed patent royalties

Walter Copan, vice-president for Research and Technology Transfer, said the majority of university technology transfer offices and start-ups lose money because many discoveries do not lead to marketable products – and those that do can take a decade ....

October 16, 2025

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