Mining Department

The Mining Department is part of the School of Technology

The Department is located on the Eastern wing of the School of Technology. The Department offers courses in Mining at both Degree and Diploma level. In addition the Department offers customer tailored technician courses to carter for the growing demand of artisan qualification in the Mining industry.

The student enrollment is over 300 from first year to finalists of which 15% are female. Course duration is 5 years for Degree programs and 3 years for Diploma courses.

Academic Staff
The Department currently has 18 members of academic lecturing staff which include staff development fellows. The teaching staff is complimented by part-time lecturers and 2 technicians and support services personnel. Most of the academic staff offices including that of the HOD are within the department buildings.

Lecture Rooms & Laboratories
Lectures are conducted within the departmental lecture rooms.
Mining department labs & lecture rooms block
The department has fully fledged mining and metallurgical laboratories where academic experiments and industrial research work is carried out.

The department has also got a state of the art Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) equipment to compliment the analytical services laboratory. The AAS is currently able to analyze 11 elements mainly base metals such as copper and cobalt. The equipment can detect as low concentration in a rock sample as 1ppm