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MINERALS INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING II

Cracow. This university has over a hundred years of teaching experience
in the field of mining and mineral processing. Graduates from AGH UST
in the field of mineral processing are aware of the supply and availability
challenges regarding a wide range of raw materials (coal, metallic and
non-ferrous metals ores, aggregates, chemical minerals etc.) and derived
products, understand the societal function of raw materials and the need
for a value chain approach to ensure the sustainable industrial utilization of
resources. Mineral processing engineers during their studies also have the
chance to acquire entrepreneurial and innovation skills, useful in expanding
the existing markets and in creating new ones. Educational activities
are therefore closely related to societal needs in general and industrial
needs in particular. In general, the graduate gains complete training in
the problems associated with physical, physicochemical and chemical
separation of the individual components of the raw materials of fossil or
mineral waste in order to obtain the concentrates for further processing
technologies. Techniques and technologies of beneficiation are among
the subjects studied.. Silesian University of Technology offers a course in
Mineral Processing and Management.

It is worth noticing that AGH UST is the only Polish University that also
offers Master studies in the field of Mining Engineering in the English
language. This makes the AGH UST the only Polish University in the field
of mining and mineral processing that is prepared for the education of
foreign students in its MSc courses. It also opens up opportunities for Polish
graduates in terms of their international internships and future mobility.
The graduates gain knowledge in the field of mining, including various
methods of raw materials extraction, together with processing technology
and waste treatment.

Several other universities offer curricula in the Polish language in the field
of mining in which selected aspects of mineral processing are delivered.
These graduates are not fully mineral processing engineers, but rather
mining engineersthat are taughtsome aspects related to mineral
processing. The following universities should be mentioned in this
category: AGH University of Science and Technology, Gdańsk University

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