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September 2, 2021: Mines is teaming up with Minalyze AB to build an advanced geosciences lab for non-destructive analysis of drill core… [link]

August 18, 2021: NPR features a story on mining and geological engineering employment … [link]

June 30, 2021: Steve Enders, head of the Mining Engineering department, explains why in situ leaching can be better for the environment than traditional copper mining… [link]

June 17, 2021: Jordy Lee, program manager of the Supply Chain Transparency Initiative at the Payne Institute, explains how a critical mineral shortage is not new information for experts… [link]

June 15, 2021: Morgan Bazilian wrote this opinion piece about how the U.S. should not ignore mining’s role in energy security… [link]

December 8, 2020: Ph.D. student Miranda Lehman was awarded the prestigious Steven C. Potter Scholarship of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.

October 30, 2020: Spencer R. Titley (September 27, 1928 – August 18, 2019) was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame. Spence held a B.S. in Geological Engineering from Mines and a Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Geology and Chemistry from the University of Arizona. Spence was an esteemed leader in the field of economic geology and one of the world’s authorities on copper porphyry deposits.

June 24, 2020: Mines is prominently featured in the SEG Podcast Episode 8: Gold in the Abitibi – New System-Scale Research. Richard Goldfarb, world-renowned orogenic gold expert, introduces the orogenic gold model and the importance of understanding this model to assist in future exploration efforts for deposits under cover. Former student Ben Frieman compares the Abitibi and Wabigoon subprovinces and speculates on gold endowment in the Wabigoon.

February 3, 2020: From lithium for batteries to neodymium for wind turbines, mined materials remain essential to modern life… [link]

January 10, 2020: The Society of Economic Geology announced that Zhaoshan Chang will be the 2020 International Exchange Lecturer. Talk titles include (1) Skarns: Zoning Patterns and Controlling Factors; (2) Lithocaps: Characteristics and Exploration; (3) Metal Transportation for High-Sulfidation Epithermal Deposits: A New Model; and (4) Mineral Geochemistry and Its Application in Exploration.

October 14, 2019: Garrett Gissler, a PhD student in the Center for Mineral Resources Science at Colorado School of Mines, has won the prestigious SRK U.S. scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year… [link]

October 11, 2019: Drs. Zhaoshan Chang and Nicole Hurtig attended the SEG 2019 conference in Santiago, Chile manning a booth representing CMRS and promoting our Professional Master Program in Mineral Exploration. The meeting presented a great opportunity to converse with working professionals and students from different countries and backgrounds. Our initiative to newly offer modular courses and certificates in the Professional Master Program enabling degree-completion as a part-time student in the on-job mode has received an overwhelming positive response from conference participants. Over 80 people have singed up for more information on the programs and research initiatives at Mines. We are very excited and hopeful to welcome new students into our PM Program next Fall and greatly diversify our student population.

June 13, 2019: The fluid inclusion study by MS student Lauren Zeeck contributes to exploration targeting at the Omu low-sulfidation epithermal camp in Hokkaido, Japan… [link]

May 1, 2019: Connor Gray was awarded a $5,000 Graduate Student Fellowship by the Society of Economic Geologists. Mario Guzman and Garrett Gissler were each awarded a $4,000 Student Research Grant by the Society of Economic Geologists… [link]

April 15, 2019: Op-ed by Larry Meinert on space mining published in SEG Newsletters … [link]

February 11, 2019: Alex Gysi has been awarded one of the prestigious NSF CAREER grants to study the partitioning of rare earth elements (REE) between minerals and aqueous fluids in ore deposits. The abstract can be found here … [link]

Dec. 5, 2018: Mines Research Magazine features a story on how mathematicians and geologists collaborate to model the subsurface and increase the chances of successful exploration … [link]