Corby Anderson, professor of mining engineering and director of the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy, says copper miners across the globe are dealing with lower grade ore and trying to find out how to produce more of the metal.

"We are terrible and very slow at building infrastructure of any kind," said Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines. But given the mining industry's history, tribes and environmental groups have reason for ....

“The cost per volume of liquid to treat for these destructive approaches is much higher,” said Timothy Strathmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. He is developing a destruction method called ....