Subsurface


In order to understand the complex processes that control the movement of contaminants and shape the Earth’s surface, scientists increasingly rely on reactive transport models, complex numerical
About 150 U.S. Geological Survey scientists will co-locate with Mines faculty and students in the state-of-the-art research and teaching facility when it opens in 2022.
Winners of the Henderson Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship Challenge will be named Dec. 5 following the final pitches for repurposing the Henderson Mill property.
Developing machine learning-enabled acoustic imaging for first responders will represent a major advancement in mine rescue, which is surprisingly low-tech in some ways.
The new Center for Mining Sustainability will address the environmental and societal concerns surrounding small-scale mining and promote the practice in a way that sustains the industry, supports local economies and minimizes environmental impacts.
Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Xiaoli Zhang is the lead researcher on a $1 million National Science Foundation project to create an AI-enabled tool for retraining workers in the metals industries.
Garrett Gissler is exploring the geological events and processes that formed the Arista deposit in Mexico.
A rare lizard fossil with extremely well-preserved skin – and a tiny fossilized gnat keeping it company – is now on display at the Mines Museum of Earth Science. The specimen was discovered somewhere
U.S. natural gas resources are at an all-time high, according to the latest biennial assessment from the Potential Gas Committee (PGC). The U.S. possessed a total technically recoverable resource base
Newly digitized vintage film has doubled how far back scientists can peer into the history of underground ice in Antarctica, and revealed that an ice shelf on Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is