Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses with Colorado Matters Host Ryan Warner why the whole world seems to be focused on critical minerals at this time. Bazilian notes that agencies and countries have their own critical minerals lists, and the lists vary.

Ian Lange, associate professor, economics and business, is interviewed about the impact of tariffs on Canadian oil imported to the U.S. The Trump administration has put a 30-day pause on such tariffs, but Colorado could still see impacts if the administration eventually decides to press play.

Christopher Higgins, civil and environmental engineering professor at Mines, is quoted about minor levels of PFAS, a class of chemicals that can cause serious health effects, being detected at eight testing sites in Leadville and Lake County.

“If the commodity market had been different, they would have opened that mine,” said Jessica Smith, a professor in the engineering design and society department at the Colorado School of Mines who has written about Mt. Emmons. “It was really the market that [killed] that project, not the opposition.”

"The most important idea in quantum is that everything is non-binary," said Lincoln Carr, a professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines. "The building blocks of our bodies, the electrons, protons, and neutrons that make up matter, that make up ....

“We're simulating a lunar mining operation and this test actually is going to take place over 15 continuous days,” Colorado School of Mines professor George Sowers said.

Luis Zerpa, associate professor at the Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineering Department, says those waxy properties have historically been seen as a barrier to shipping that type of oil. “So that’s the problem with the waxy oils is they have ....

John Jechura, a professor of practice at the Colorado School of Mines who worked in refineries, reviewed the document. While he’s glad the company made the decision to shut down the refinery, he said Suncor Energy should still explain events like a set of fires in a “sour water stripper” area on Dec. 27.

Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Space Resources Program at Colorado School of Mines, talks to Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner about the new era of space exploration.

Mines football players have stickers on their helmets that list their major. That’s how seriously this team takes academics at a university that’s widely regarded as one of the best engineering schools in the world. They are nerds. And they wear that ....