In this opinion piece, Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and Brad Handler, program manager for Payne's Energy Finance Lab, discuss the role that private investors and lenders play in the production of critical minerals.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, provides context about the challenges of a establishing a mining sector.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses how the administration could take action on its own.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, along with his co-authors, discusses the United States' new interest in minerals located in Greenland.

Raphael Deberdt, a postdoctoral researcher in mining engineering, explains how the current economic system incentivizes resource extraction over reuse and reduction of resource consumption.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses the challenge posed by China's dominance in the processing and refining of ores.

Paul Santi, professor of geology and geological engineering, talks about the varied causes of sinkholes.

Ian Lange, associate professor of economics and business, explains that we're only currently able to estimate the technological hurdles of asteroid mining.

Ian Lange, associate professor of economics and business, explains how the threat of tariffs are driving copper prices.

Yaoguo Li, professor of Geophysics, discusses how Mines has a unique combination of expertise from both the mining industry and oil and gas industry to advance geologic hydrogen exploration and stimulated hydrogen monitoring.