Mines Magazine spring 2024 cover
Mines Magazine winter 2024 cover
Mines Magazine fall 2023 cover showing an tablet screen with an image of a mine with a digital overlay.
Mines Magazine spring 2023 cover of construction engineering students looking at blueprints on a construction site

Mines Magazine is a four-color magazine published three times a year by Colorado School of Mines. Mines is a highly respected applied science and engineering undergraduate and graduate university with an emphasis on energy, materials, earth resources and the environment. Mines Magazine is distributed to all known alumni residing in the U.S., campus faculty, graduate students and friends of Mines. The online edition is promoted via hyperlinked emails to:

  • to the same group as our print version, including all undergraduate students
  • all international alumni who we have emails for
  • all users on our social media sites and those who visit minesmagazine.com

The magazine aims to keep readers in touch with the school and its alumni by providing coverage of campus events, academic programs, research, student life, alumni news and other issues of concern to the community. According to in-depth readership surveys, the magazine has a loyal and interested readership: the latest survey indicates that 94 percent of recipients read the magazine, with 39 percent of respondents reporting that they read it “cover-to-cover.” Mines Magazine has a press run of 30,000 and has been published continuously since 1910.

Publication Requirements
Publisher prefers high-resolution PDF files (CMYK at least 300 dpi). Completed ad material should be sent to [email protected]. All colors must be reproducible from process color. Any required changes are the advertiser’s responsibility. No changes can be made to ads after the material deadline without special permission from the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to reject any advertisement at the publisher’s discretion.

Trim size: 8.375 inches x 10.875 inches

Storage and material: Materials are stored for one year by the publisher, and then destroyed unless other instructions are received from the advertiser or agency.

Binding method: Saddle stitch

Full bleed: Accepted on all ads (add 0.125 inch on all sides to accommodate), and we recommend a 0.25-inch margin.

All prices below are for a single advertisement. Discounted rates apply to advertisers placing an order for a year at a time (three issues). To place your ad order, download our display ad order form, and email it to [email protected] or place your order online.

*Please include a 0.125-inch bleed on all ad artwork.* 

  Width and Height
(inches)
Insertion in 1 issue Insertion in 3 issues
(price per issue)
Inside front cover
(full page)
8.375 x 10.875 $2,490 $2,240
Inside back cover
(full page)
8.375 x 10.875 $2,280 $2,050
Full page 8.375 x 10.875 $2,075 $1,865
2/3 page (vertical) 5.527 x 10.875 $1,525 $1,370
2/3 page (horizontal) 8.375 x 7.012 $1,525 $1,370
1/2 page (vertical) 4.187 x 10.875 $1,255 $1,130
1/2 page (horizontal)  8.375 x 5.312 $1,255 $1,130
1/3 page (vertical) 2.763 x 10.875 $920 $830
1/3 page (horizontal) 3.506 x 8.375 $920 $830
1/4 page 4.1875 x 5.4502 $760 $680

To place your ad order, download our At-Your-Service ad order form, and email it to [email protected] or place your order online.

Height and Width
(inches)
Price for 3 issues
1 x 2.312 $250
2 x 2.312 $375
3 x 2.312 $485
4 x 2.312 $600

Contact Ashley Spurgeon at [email protected] or 303-273-3959 with any questions
or for additional information.