But there are no guarantees, said Adrienne Marshall, a hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines. “We don’t know how much that will help the reservoirs and help hydropower production,” she said.

“China is the dominant player across the supply chain for almost all of these critical minerals,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines and a former lead energy specialist at the World Bank.

Christopher Thiry, a map librarian at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, is one of the diggers. Discovering the covenants in Jefferson County shocked him. “That blew me away that this rural county at the time would have them,” Thiry said. “As I tell ....

“The amount of energy it takes to get from Earth to Low-Earth Orbit is actually pretty close to the amount of energy it takes to get from Low-Earth Orbit to higher, more useful orbits, or to deep space, and to take all the fuel that we need from ....

Multiple drivers could prompt water providers in Colorado to consider DPR, says Christopher Bellona, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

Ian Lange, director of the Mineral and Energy Economics graduate program at the Colorado School of Mines, says these loans will help companies extract battery materials in the US but that getting permits remains a big challenge.

A hydrogen plant is critical to any refinery operation, said John Jechura, a Colorado School of Mines professor of practice who teaches a refining class.

"A decade ago, people got excited and there were those declaring that the first trillionaire was going to be made in space in those years," said Angel Abbud-Madrid is the Director of the Center for Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines in ....

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this opinion piece on the importance of secure and resilient supply chains for critical minerals.

Ken Osgood, professor of history at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this commentary piece about his experience trying to get banned from Twitter.