Economics and business

Crystal Dobratz, associate teaching professor of economics and business and director of the Engineering and Technology Management Program, has been selected as the Fryrear Chair for Innovation and

Climate change is not only altering how much water flows through rivers, but also when that water is available, according to a new Mines-authored study in Nature Water.

Two Mines faculty members testified before congressional committees and commissions on the nation’s critical mineral challenges, underscoring the university’s leadership across geology, mining, processing, economics and policy.

Modeling how minerals, industry and power systems connect helps shape the future of energy and smarter decision-making.

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The outsized role critical minerals play in defense and renewable energy applications fuels much of the attention on this sector now. China has raced ahead of the rest of the world in mining, refining

The findings, published in the journal Science, show that improved recovery of critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements currently being discarded as tailings of other mineral streams could meet the U.S. demand for energy, defense and technology applications.

Economics and Business' Ian Lange leads a federal subcommittee to examine the role of critical metals in transitional energy sources.

Mines Assistant Professor Maxwell Brown among the coauthors of the new findings, published in the journal Science