School of Mines

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There exist many institutions called School of Mines, generally engineering schools originating in 18th or 19th century industrialization. These schools no longer necessarily teach mining-related topics.

[edit] Some examples:

[edit] Schools of Mining

• The Western Australia School of Mines in Kalgoorlie, Australia
• The Bendigo School of Mines in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
• The Colorado School of Mines in Colorado, United States
• The Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, UK
• The Royal School of Mines in London, UK
• The Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, India

[edit] Universities teaching Mining

• University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Engineering and Mines, Fairbanks, Alaska
• University of Wollongong
• Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departament of mining engeneering, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Universidade Federal de MInas Gerais, Department of mining engineering in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• The Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy - now known as the University of Missouri–Rolla in Rolla, Missouri
• The Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering--(Formerly the Mackay School of Mines),--[[1]] University of Nevada, Reno
• Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Departamento de Ingeniería en Minas, Santiago, Chile
• Centro de Minería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile
• The University of Tehran, Department of Mining Engineering in Tehran, Iran
• South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in South Dakota, United States
• Faculty of Mining and Geology, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland
• the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris in Paris, France
• The Welsh School of Mines, in Pontypridd, Glamorgan - now the University of Glamorgan
• Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
• The Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, VA, United States
• West Virginia University, in Morgantown, WVA, United States
• University of Utah, Department of Mining Engineering in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• University of Alberta, Department of Mining Engineering in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• University of New South Wales, School of Mining Engineering
• Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto(EMOP) Minas Gerais, Brazil. It started as an isolated school of mines. When the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto(UFOP), was founded in this city, the School of Mines acted as the seed for the expansion of UFOP.
• Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• The "School of Mines" is also the former name of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in New York City.
• Helsinki University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland
• Montana Tech of the University of Montana, USA
• Kothagudem School of Mines, Kothagudem, India
• IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India