Prof. dr hab. inż. Krystian Probierz Faculty of Mining and Geology

Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice

Oulu, 15 May 2014

Faculty of Mining and GeologySilesian University of Technology

Gliwice, Poland

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Lowland

Upland

▲ Mountains ▲

Lake district

▲ Mountains ▲

SILESIA

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Thirty Year’s War

1618-1648

← Gliwice

Swedish SoldiersSiegeCurtain wall

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Katowice 44km 33’

Kraków 95km 1h

Ostrawa 113km 1h 20’

Wrocław 170km 1h 33’

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larch wooden towerbrass screw 118 m height

GliwiceTown hall

Post office

2013 population ~185 000

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7Beside Beer gardens in Gliwice:

Old square

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Castle,„Wall street”Town HallVilla Caro- museum

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Main Street from Station Building

to Old square

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Gliwice Zabrze

Katowice

Rybnik

Historic GUIDO Coal Mine

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Faculty of Mining and Geology

The Faculty employs 35 professors and associate professors as well as 114 PhDs. The Faculty runs the scope of researches concerning modern mining which covers appropriate

geological identification of mineral deposits,

economically effective extraction of raw materials,

use of energy-saving and fail-save machines,

meeting requirements of safety and environmental protection 

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Structure:

Institutes of Mining Mechanisation Mining, Mineral Processing and Waste Utilization Applied Geology

Departments of

Electrical Engineering and Control in Mining

Mining Management and Safety Engineering

Geomechanics, Underground Construction and Management of  Mining Areas Surface Protection

Museum of Deposit Geology

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Powered roof support Longwall Mining

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Shale gas drilling

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Part of our Mineralogical Collection from ….. 1802

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Alumnus

Yearly Beer Meeting

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The Faculty cooperates with numerous foreign centers all over the world:Germany with universities (Aachen, Freiburg, Munster, Bochum, Tübingen, Darmstadt, Bielefeld, Clausthal, Wuppertal, Dresden, Magdeburg, Braunschweig, Munich, Freiberg, Chemnitz, Hanover, Bielefeld, Trier),Czech Republic (Ostrava, Brno),Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow),Spain (Madrid, Vigo, Oviedo),Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)Sweden (Stockholm, Lulea, Göteborg),Turkey (Pammukale), Ukraine (Donetsk), Slovakia (Kosice), China (Qingdao, Beijing, Sichuan, Jiaozuo), Japan (Tsukuba, Osaka, Matsuyama), India (Kharagpur, Dhanbad), Vietnam (Hanoi, Ha-Long) and in Chile (Antofagasta, La Serena, Coquimbo)

Barbara Day 2013 Jouko Saarela SYKE

Helsinki

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Thank you for attention

Kiitos