Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer Walt Copan, Professor Jessica Smith and the Payne Institute's Juliet Akamboe were interviewed in this piece about the role miners play in the transition to green energy.

"They're using tunnel boring machine technology which is very similar to what i see used throughout the industry," said Mike Mooney, Grewcock Chair Professor of Underground Construction & Tunneling at Colorado School of Mines. "The unique thing about ....

Morgan Bazilian from the Colorado School of Mines says Washington needs to do more to ensure its climate-change goals will last, as other countries are “rightfully wary” about trusting U.S. administrations that sometimes change every four years.

Yet the notion of extracting platinum, gold and other valuable minerals from heavenly bodies and propelling them back to Earth is more fiction than science. “The economic analysis doesn’t make sense,” said Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center ....