The Paul Laxalt Mineral Engineering houses classrooms, research and teaching laboratories, and departmental and staff offices. The department has fully equiped process control and unit operations laboratories for teaching several courses of our curriculum.

The Department have access to mordern computer facilities for both research and teaching activities. The college of engineering has state of the art computing teaching labs and the University manages several computer clusters for research purposes.

This $11 million building, completed in 1983, was a giant step forward for the University and the School of Mines. The 60,000-square-foot building, styled to conform with the historic buildings around it, houses classrooms and laboratories for mining, chemical, and metallurgical engineering and geological sciences. It also includes the Nevada Seismology Laboratory, the Keck Mine Ventilation Lab, the Newmont Rock Mechanics Lab and a supercomputer laboratory.

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Location: I4

Building Code: LME (046)