"We see some positive signs of diplomacy, but they don’t appear to be influencing this sort of downward, tit-for-tat spiral," said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

“The entire political system is very taken with the fact that China dominates the overall space, and it’s become one of the only areas of roughly bipartisan agreement,” said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School ....

"While they don't have dominance across all the mineral mining itself, they are very strong and have made a lot of investments over a long period of time in companies that do that mining," said Morgan Bazilian, a professor at the Colorado School of ....

Corby Anderson, a metallurgist at the Colorado School of Mines, said the Nevada mine would be an important domestic source of lithium, which the U.S. currently imports primarily from South America now.

Big energy companies like Shell, BP and Chevron are joining a consortium created by the U.S. Geological Survey and Colorado School of Mines to study geologic hydrogen, but a handful of ambitious startups are already on the hunt

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this opinion piece on the high-stakes efforts by the U.S. and China to gain and maintain advantage across several technological and manufacturing capabilities.

Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering at Colorado School of Mines, appeared on BNN Bloomberg to discuss the prospects of cobalt mining in the U.S. amid heightened demand for EV batteries.

Sam Spiegel, assistant vice president for online education, wrote this opinion piece about the common misconceptions of online learning that can lead to "bumps" in the human-technology interface.

By 2030, half of the current U.S. mining workforce — about 221,000 workers — is expected to retire and will need to be replaced, not to mention the workers needed for new lithium mines in Nevada and elsewhere. Yet the country’s 14 university-level mining engineering programs saw their combined body of graduates drop by half in the last five years, to a paltry 172 graduates this year, said Steve Enders, a professor of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

“When you look at damage to a building or a road or something, most of the time you can track it back to something to do with water,” said Paul Santi, a professor of Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines.