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Colorado School of Mines and ElementUSA awarded $67M by DOE for construction of rare earth processing plant

Colorado School of Mines and ElementUSA have secured $67 million in DOE funding to develop a Louisiana facility for rare earth element processing and mineral recovery.

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Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change

Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist, said she hopes her study helps motivate people to think about how they can adapt to and avoid very low snow years.

U.S. Continues To Lead QS World University Rankings By Academic Field

While Harvard University again claims the most #1 rankings, Colorado School of Mines ranks #1 for its mining engineering program.

Homeowners stuck in 6 years of sinkhole limbo

Paul Santi, professor of geology and geological engineering and director of the Institute for Initiatives in Latin America, said an engineer or geologist who had access to data on abandoned underground mines could have predicted the sinkholes.

IHFTC opens in Oman with panel on the future of Middle East unconventional development

Jennifer Miskimins, professor and department head of petroleum engineering and incoming 2026 Society of Petroleum Engineering president, welcomed attendees to the SPE International Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition in Muscat, the capital city of the Sultanate of Oman.

Inside Trump's foray into mineral ownership

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, said that even though the U.S. government is taking an equity stake in specific mining companies he doesn't believe the government will take over the mining operations.

Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?

Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, explains what forecasters are watching and how rising temperatures are reshaping the future of snow in the western United States.