Colorado School of Mines purchased the industrial property a month ago for about $14 million, university President Paul Johnson told the Denver Business Journal.

Gabriel Collins, Ian Lange and Morgan Bazilian, of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored a piece on the opportunity available in the United States related to critical minerals.

A softening labor market is raising concerns for college students who will soon be looking for a job. But on the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden, companies are practically fighting over future employees.

"You see that the political tides are in your favor as a mining person in the United States," said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute and professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

Even the August heat and the long trek up Lookout Mountain Road wasn’t going to stop about 1,700 college students from leaving their mark on their new university.

Colorado School of Mines welcomed 1,774 first-year and transfer students in traditional Mines fashion on Friday morning. Eager to attend the school and elevate their academic careers, the students had to first make their way up a physical elevation ....

Nathan Lenssen, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Colorado School of Mines, said he’s hopeful La Niña won’t lead to another year of drought for California, especially given the explosive wildfires already ....

"In the mining process you are taking things that are happily buried in the ground, isolated from the atmosphere and when they hit oxygen, there goes the chemical reaction," said Rich Wanty, a research professor at Colorado School of Mines, noting ....