2025 Mining Summer Camp

📆 July 20-25, 2025 
📍University Park, PA

Attendance limited to 20 campers to enhance their lab experiences.
Campers should be rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Registration is a nominal $500 with the balance funded by Penn State Mining Engineering alumni and friends and sponsorship by mining companies and affiliates.

Learn about minerals in our daily lives 

Are you curious where all the metals come from in your smart phone or computer? Those in medical devices? In fertilizers? In recreation equipment? Why do we call some “critical minerals?” How do we mine them? Process them?  

Come to MINING ROCKS!! Penn State Mining Summer Camp!