Extractive Metallurgy

Extractive Metallurgy prepares graduates to join a professional team of engineers and scientists underpinning Australia's mineral industry. The course bridges applied science and engineering by including the design and engineering aspects of the technology of extractive metallurgy. Extractive metallurgists develop technologies and operate the industrial plants that treat mineral ores to produce metals and mineral products.

As an alternative, students may elect to graduate with the three-year Bachelor of Science degree in Mineral Science after completing 72 points of study including eight specified Year 2 and 3 units from the second and third years of the Bachelor of Extractive Metallurgy. This option allows for students with interests in extractive metallurgy who wish to meet requirements of double major degrees with Chemistry, Environmental Science or other disciplines.