Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines, recalled how that mandated sale from the 2018 law occurred as oil prices tanked during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The fact that we don’t truly produce the metals we need is a problem,” said Corby Anderson, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines who specializes in extractive metallurgy.

Mines football players have stickers on their helmets that list their major. That’s how seriously this team takes academics at a university that’s widely regarded as one of the best engineering schools in the world. They are nerds. And they wear that ....

Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the dangers of a World Trade Organization decision to waive patent rights related to Covid-19 vaccines.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-wrote this opinion piece on why methane deserves attention at November's COP27 climate negotiations in addition to carbon dioxide.

Houston’s Chuck Wagner graduated from Colorado School of Mines in 1981, and hadn’t been back to campus in 40 years. So, it was only proper that his first time back was on Homecoming weekend.

The region's brine teems with lithium, calcium, sodium and other minerals that are very complex to separate, said Corby Anderson, who teaches metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines.

“If you don’t turn over dirt to get lithium out of the ground, you’re probably turning over dirt to get natural gas, or oil, or uranium,” said Ian Lange, an associate professor of economics and business at the Colorado School of Mines. “Nothing is ....

Lunar regolith, or moon dust, could come in handy for future moon-dwellers. Now, we have to figure out how to move it.

“If it is found to be Russian underwater drones or divers that made the attack, I am not clear on what, if any, military action might look like,” said Morgan Bazilian, a public policy professor at the Colorado School of Mines and former energy ....

The amount of gas observed being flared -- burned off into the atmosphere -- at Gazprom’s key production area in the Yamal peninsula between Aug. 10 and Sept. 21 averaged 1.18 million cubic meters a day, according to Bloomberg calculations based on ....

Benjamin Burke, an affiliate professor at the Colorado School of Mines, explains that Red Rocks is essentially an ancient delta — a 300 million-year-old accumulation of sedimentary rock that once belonged to what’s known as the ancestral Rockies.