Home Ore Bust: Mines students, alumni mark Homecoming Week

Mines students, staff and alumni celebrated Homecoming by painting pumpkins, roasting marshmallows, running along Clear Creek and packing into the Marv Kay Stadium stands.
October 6, 2025

Colorado-based startup fills gap in quantum market thanks to vision from School of Mines graduates

Connor Denney, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, and Logan Pauli, master's graduate in quantum engineering, created a quantum amplifier company, Bifrost, that has secured $4 million dollars in seed funding.
October 6, 2025

The mystery of how quasicrystals form

Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, recently induced microspheres called Dynabeads to assemble into a quasicrystal.
October 5, 2025

Colorado School of Mines senior grows a 1,500-pound pumpkin

Lief Ritter, senior majoring in chemical engineering, says he was proud to display his award-winning pumpkin in front of Mines' Guggenheim Hall.
October 4, 2025

U.S. Government Publishing Office honors Arthur Lakes Library at School Of Mines

Arthur Lakes Library is named the 2025 Federal Depository Library Of The Year by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
October 3, 2025

US copper tariffs clash with refining bottleneck

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, notes that China is hard to compete with in the copper arena due to state support.
October 2, 2025

Trump administration announces stake in U.S. lithium mine

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses demand for EV's and how that impacts the international lithium market.
October 2, 2025

Giant pumpkin grown by Colorado student on display

Leif Ritter, senior in chemical engineering, explains how he grew a 1,579 pound pumpkin using strategies he learned through his studies at Mines.
October 2, 2025

Meet the microbes that munch mountains of mining waste

Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, is quoted about her study published in Science that demonstrated much of the United States' critical minerals demand could be satisfied through reprocessing mine waste.
October 1, 2025

Trump coal plan includes private land unlikely to be mined

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, discusses the challenges associated with mining coal that is on land with split, public and private, ownership.
October 1, 2025

Do you know where your well water comes from? A look into aquifers in Southern Colorado

Lesley Sebol, groundwater program manager for the Colorado Geological Survey, and Matt Sares, senior researcher for the Colorado Geological Survey, discuss the aquifers in Southern Colorado.
October 1, 2025

Aquifers: The groundwater in Colorado’s wells and how it gets there

Lesley Sebol, groundwater program manager for the Colorado Geological Survey, and Matt Sares, senior researcher for the Colorado Geological Survey, are interviewed about the connection between ground water and surface water.
October 1, 2025