EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Mining industry leader Freeport-McMoRan invested $7 million to support the University of Texas at El Paso’s (UTEP) mining engineering degree program, the university announced ...

HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) - Michigan Technological University is reviving a mining engineering program, bringing back a department whose Upper Peninsula roots go back to the 1800s. Michigan Tech suspended ...

Update: UTEP announced a $7 million investment by Freeport-McMoRan. The money will help re-start the mining engineering degree program. “Mining is a $10 billion-plus industry in Texas," said UTEP ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — As decade-high gold and silver prices spark a renewed interest in mining in the West, there are few mining education programs and fewer students earning mining engineering degrees due ...