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Mines Magazine is published three times a year by the Colorado School of Mines Communications and Marketing Office for alumni and friends of the school.
In our Fall 2026 issue, learn how competition teams teach students to move ideas from design to reality while navigating time and resource constraints. Also read about how Mines alumni are pursuing innovative ideas to change the ways in which we travel through space, use quantum software and more.
Ian Lange, Viola Vestal Coulter Chair of Mineral Economics, said the economics of tungsten mining in Kazakhstan are very hard to pencil out without a subsidy.
Brad Handler, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy's Energy Finance Lab, said equity investments are about creating a structure through which the government, and ultimately taxpayers, can receive a return on their investment.
In his remarks, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio cited cooperation already under way in Uzbekistan, including critical minerals work led by Colorado School of Mines.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted in his remarks that Colorado School of Mines is helping modernize the extraction and processing of critical minerals in Uzbekistan.
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