The Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering is noted for its unique educational structure which accommodates on the mining and metallurgy specialists in one department . It has an excellent new departmental site with 8000 square meters of educational and laboratory area . Close links are maintained with industry and the Ministry of Mines and Metals. The relationship between microstructure and properties underlies much of the research work and the Department has a scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction equipment . The mining division has extensive laboratories which include: Geochemistry; mineralogy; mineral processing; floatation; rock mechanics;computing and plotting facilities .

Recent research activities are:

• Analysis of compressed air distribution system mines .
• Investigation and production of mixed ferrites and rare earth ferrites.
• Rock flow and dram control in caving systems .

The laboratories of the metallurgical engineering division include :

• Extractive metallurgy
• powder processing
• heat treatment
• metal forming
• metallography and workshops

The metallurgical engineering division is able to supervise research over a wide range of topics.

The main research interests are :

• Fracture in engineering components
• Thin films
• Production of metal powders by REP and electrolysis
• Non-metallic coating for aggressive environments

The Departmental library has more than 6000 books, 12 journal articles and 80 theses.