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Explore our internationally recognised mining and mineral education programmes and take the first step towards a dynamic career in a globally expanding industry.
Our programmes offer you a unique opportunity to specialise in fields such as mining engineering, sustainable mineral extraction, and exploration. Your studies will have a strong emphasis on practical skills and research-driven teaching.
Benefit from the expertise of experienced faculty, access state-of-the-art laboratories and technology centres, and prepare to tackle future challenges in sustainable mining and resource management. Explore our programmes, career pathways, and what makes our offerings exceptional – and find out how you can start your journey in the mining and mineral industry today.
Our programmes in mining
- Bachelor Programme in Mineral Resource Engineering
The sustainable use of natural resources is crucial to the green transition we are facing. With this unique education, you will learn to meet the demand for minerals and metals for tomorrow's products. The program is offered in collaboration with leading companies in the industry.
- Master programme in Artic Mineral Resources
The transition to green technologies and a low-carbon future is highly raw materials intensive. To address the mining related sustainability challenges, encountered especially in the Arctic areas, education of professionals must meet the new needs of the future. - Master programme in Applied Environmental Geoochemistry
Discover Applied Environmental Geochemistry: Learn about element occurrence, mobility, and pollution effects. Here, you will understand the relationships between the environment and its elements and how to positively impact it by developing solutions to reduce environmental pollution. - Master Programme in Civil Engineering, with specialization in mining and Geotechnical Engineering
This programme offers you the chance to be part of the development for future infrastructure and mining operations. The use of soil and rock materials have a wide range of applications, and this programme provides you with sought-after skills that can open doors to global career opportunities. - Master programme in Exploration Geoscience
As our society moves away from fossil fuels, this program equips you with cutting-edge knowledge and skills in exploration geoscience that are highly sought after. Global exploration for natural resources, such as metals and minerals, is of great necessity in the ongoing societal transition.
Meet our teachers
Our researchers become your teachers. The Swedish School of Mines is an initiative to deliver skills for the entire mineral and metal value chain that the world demands through the green transition.
“Increased pace of finding critical raw materials”
Tobias Bauer is assistant professor in the research subject ore geology.
With electrification and the green transition, the demand for critical metals such as batteries is increasing rapidly. A new EU-funded project will develop methods to reduce exploration costs and increase the likelihood of finding new sources of critical raw materials for battery production.
The project Exploration Information System (EIS) has recently received almost 60 million SEK from the Horizon Europe research program. Luleå University of Technology is part of the project with representation from the research subject ore geology, whose share corresponds to about six million SEK in labor input.
“Ore formation requires several different conditions that all need to interact with each other. Only if all conditions are in the right place at the right time can an ore deposit be formed. With EIS we will implement these conditions in new mineral system models. This gives us fast and cost-effective analysis tools for mineral exploration”, says Tobias Bauer, assistant professor in the research subject ore geology at Luleå University of Technology.
The developed methods will reduce the current high exploration costs and increase the probability of finding new sources of critical raw materials for battery production.
“We also want to increase public awareness and confidence in the importance of raw materials for a successful transition to a climate-neutral and digitalized economy and society. Furthermore, we will inform the public about how the EU can have a secure, sustainable and responsible supply of raw materials from domestic sources”, says Tobias Bauer.
The "Exploration Information System - EIS" project is a European consortium of 17 partners from research institutes, academia, service providers and industry. The members come from six EU Member States plus two non-European countries and cover the main metal-producing regions in Europe.
“These areas of the EU have different geology and great potential for different types of new mineral resources”, says Tobias Bauer.
“I am a mountain hiking and skiing environmental nerd”
Lina Hällström works in the research group for applied geochemistry at Luleå University of Technology that deals with environmental problems both in the natural environment and in the mining industry.
“In my work I evaluate the new concept "Remining". This means the possibility of cleaning up historically old sins of the mining industry by creating new mines from the old waste. This will remove pollution from nature and at the same time extract metals in Sweden, good huh?”
“Who am I? A few years ago, I would probably have been described as one of two handball goalkeepers in the BBK women's team. Today, there is hardly any part of handball left in my life. My training now mainly involves long-distance running and cross-country skiing.”
“The team spirit that disappeared with handball I now get elsewhere instead. If you look me up on Facebook, you would understand from my frequent status updates on integration that I am one of three women who run the non-profit Swedish school Let's Go Swedish. Four hours a week I get to meet a group of wonderful people from all over the world. For almost five years, we have had over 400 friends at our school and last year we were voted for the honorable award Årets Bodensare.
“I have long had the goal of changing the world for the better, both in environmental and integration issues. My Let's Go Swedish students often have to put up with this when I force them to read texts about plastics in the oceans, the importance of ecosystems, space, recycling or anything else in my own field of interest. As I mentioned in the introduction, job opportunities and development of the countryside, Boden and Norrbotten are also close to my heart.”
“We see an increased need for all kinds of metals, both base and critical metals”
Meet Christna Wanhainen and Nils Jansson, teachers at the Sustainable Mineral Extraction program.
Christina, why do we need metals in the sustainable society and can metals be extracted sustainably?
“The question covers the critical metals needed for the green transition and how this program teaches you how to find and extract them, etc.”
“The human need for metals and minerals is increasing, in line with an increasing world population and the green transition that is now taking place. Renewable energy systems, such as wind turbines and solar cells, require a lot of base metals and also a number of critical metals, i.e. metals that are of great economic importance but are not produced in the EU.”
“There is up to twelve times more copper in renewable energy systems compared to traditional systems. An electric car, for example, contains more than three times as much copper as a petrol car, and therefore the demand for copper will increase for a long time to come. The green transition thus implies an increased need for all kinds of metals, both base and critical metals.”
“In this course you will learn how these metals are found in the Earth's crust in the form of ores, how and where different types of ores are formed and what methods are used to find and extract them in a sustainable way.”
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