Giant Sinkholes in South Dakota Neighborhood Make Families Fear for Their Safety

Sinkholes are fairly common, due to collapsed caves, old mines or dissolving material, but the circumstances in South Dakota stand out, said Paul Santi, a professor of geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.
September 24, 2024

Community Benefit Agreements are key to mining battery minerals on public lands

Community Benefit Agreements are needed to integrate community priorities into project design and mining operations on public land in the USA, argues Elizabeth Holley.
September 20, 2024

Colorado’s multimillion dollar investment in quantum gets 70-acre campus in Arvada

“We knew that a requirement for any successful proposal was going to be to have a location where companies could get together, advance their technologies, share resources,” said Paul C. Johnson, president of the School of Mines. “That’s where we jumped in and said, ‘how about if we do that for you to make your proposal more competitive?’ They got very excited about it.”
September 17, 2024

Colorado university spending $14M on land to establish quantum tech hub

Colorado School of Mines purchased the industrial property a month ago for about $14 million, university President Paul Johnson told the Denver Business Journal.
September 16, 2024

Guest column: America’s mineral blind spot – the trillion-dollar opportunity hiding in plain sight

Gabriel Collins, Ian Lange and Morgan Bazilian, of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored a piece on the opportunity available in the United States related to critical minerals.
September 13, 2024

Colorado School of Mines hosts more than 400 companies looking to hire students

A softening labor market is raising concerns for college students who will soon be looking for a job. But on the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden, companies are practically fighting over future employees.
September 11, 2024

Trump, Harris back mining, but producers unsatisfied

"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.
September 9, 2024

Ain’t no mountain high enough: New Mines students make annual ‘M’ Climb

Even the August heat and the long trek up Lookout Mountain Road wasn’t going to stop about 1,700 college students from leaving their mark on their new university.
August 19, 2024

From Mines to the mountaintops: M Climb welcomes new students to campus

Colorado School of Mines welcomed 1,774 first-year and transfer students in traditional Mines fashion on Friday morning. Eager to attend the school and elevate their academic careers, the students had to first make their way up a physical elevation ....
August 16, 2024

As La Niña strengthens, forecasters warn of a potential return to drought

Nathan Lenssen, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Colorado School of Mines, said he’s hopeful La Niña won’t lead to another year of drought for California, especially given the explosive wildfires already ....
August 16, 2024

Uncharted waters: Aurora's unique bid for gold mine water hits head waves

"In the mining process you are taking things that are happily buried in the ground, isolated from the atmosphere and when they hit oxygen, there goes the chemical reaction," said Rich Wanty, a research professor at Colorado School of Mines, noting ....
August 11, 2024

New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars

“It’s all about playing tricks with the steel,” says John Speer, director of the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center at the Colorado School of Mines.
August 5, 2024