The federal government is updating the region’s geological maps to expand the search for critical minerals and rare earth ...

Part 2: The search to identify underground resources is often done from the sky. Here’s how that scientific magic happens Helicopters sporting long appendages are flying over some rural areas of the ...

Researchers found that U.S. metal mines already contain large amounts of critical minerals that are mostly going unused.

DENVER — An independent energy research group has determined that oil and gas companies would still be able to access more than half of the minerals underground in northeastern Colorado if Proposition ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — Looking at the mountains, it’s ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. In Custer County’s Wet Mountain Valley, Temple investigates old ...

Julie Hesse will give a presentation that goes along with her exhibit this month at Basalt Regional Library. What: “Rough and Cut: A Look at Colorado Minerals and Gemstones” When: March 25 at 5:15 p.m ...

Scott Petsel, Metallic Minerals' President, stated, "We are excited to have completed our largest drill and field program to date at La Plata with the collaboration of our strategic investor, Colorado ...

Steep piles of old mine tailings form "The Dumps" on Aspen Mountain. These thigh-burning trails are tributes to the area's geology, which forever altered the town's fate after silver was discovered ...

As Colorado Rising gathers signatures in support of its statewide ballot initiative that would place tough new restrictions on oil and gas drilling, the Colorado Association of Mineral and Royalty ...

As a child, Sandra Gonzales would stuff so many rocks into her chest of drawers that the thing would collapse under the weight. “My dad always had to hammer it back together,” she says. She’s found a ...

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