What is a Mining Engineer?
Mining Engineering is a multi-faceted discipline that offers a broad range of career paths including mine design and evaluation, operations management, corporate management, financial and analysis and the equities market, merchant banking and consulting. As a profession, Mining Engineering is concerned with the safe, economic and environmentally responsible recovery, processing, marketing and financial management of mineral resources to meet the ever expanding demand from the global community for mineral commodities. The undergraduate degree program includes elements common to many engineering programs and also because of a business focus it encompasses aspects of commerce and management. This means that during their careers, mining graduates should have sufficient grounding to allow them to move between different industry sectors. To get some idea of what our graduates do, see the various roles of some of our graduates.
