The potential shift back to producing rare earths shows how these mining projects evolve over time in response to the market, said professor Rod Eggert, deputy director of the Critical Materials Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

Front Range also signed a transfer agreement with Colorado School of Mines. Adeena Chughtai will start there as a junior in the fall and said, as a community college student, she never thought she’d go to a school like Mines.

“It’s been something to keep an eye on for a long time,” says Matthew Siegfried, a glaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

Qualified Red Rocks Community College (RRCC) students who want to transfer to the Colorado School of Mines in pursuit of a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) bachelor’s degree, will soon have a more direct route to achieving their goal.

“Thermal technologies in general are one of the most promising approaches for actually achieving PFAS destruction,” Timothy J. Strathmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, tells C&EN.

Angel Abbud-Madrid embraced the space mania of the ’60s – he drank it down with Tang. At age 8, he watched the American moonwalk from his living room in Mexico, relieved that aliens didn’t intervene.

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.

If these high coal prices last even a little bit longer, though, private equity firms might come calling, according to Ian Lange, director of the mineral energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines.

After meeting for months, task force members are optimistic Colorado is ready to fund research and demonstration projects and move forward on enabling rules, said Laura Singer, carbon capture program manager for the Colorado School of Mines.

M. Stephen Enders, a professor who heads the mining engineering department at the Colorado School of Mines and spent four decades in the exploration business, said speed matters.

According to Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, any near-term effects will likely come from people in Scotland who aren’t directly involved in negotiations.

Jim Crompton used to work for Chevron Oil as a senior advisor for digital oil field projects. He retired in 2013, after 37 years. Now he teaches petroleum engineering students at the Colorado School of Mines.