The University of Queensland established the Department of Mining Engineering in 1950. At the same time, the University acquired an old silver-lead mine in Indooroopilly which became known as the University Experimental Mine.From these beginnings, the Department evolved into first the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and then to the Department of Mining, Minerals and Materials Engineering in 1996.

 

These changes reflected the growth of the undergraduate activities, firstly into the general area of metallurgy and more recently into the separate areas of minerals engineering and materials engineering. This trend culminated with the separation of materials from the department to form an independent division when the new School of Engineering formed in 2003 by the amalgamation of the former departments of Chemical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering with Mining, Minerals and Materials.

 

This new organisation better allows us to forge an independent identity and to develop our research into new fields away from the traditional mining base.

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