Even though attempts to establish the Faculty of Mining (W-6) were made as early as at the time of the University’s reactivation in 1945, it wasn’t until 1950 that the Mining Departments at the Faculties of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and the Self-contained Institute of Lignite at the Department of Technical Chemistry came into being. The units were closed down by a decision of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Higher Education of April 30, 1954. Wincenty Czechowicz - the then technical director of the Union of the Lignite Industry - made another attempt to establish mining studies at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. And so, on December 4, 1964, the Department of Open Pit Mining at the Faculty of Civil Engineering was founded. On September 1, 1968, the Department was transformed into the independent Faculty of Mining. On January 1, 2004, its name was changed to the Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining, and Geology.

From its establishment to 1992, the Faculty of Mining was seated in the NOT (Wrocław Council of the Federation of Engineering Associations) building, in Piłsudskiego St. 74 (formerly Świerczewskiego St.). Since 1969, the Faculty has conducted its educational activity at the Branch of WUST in Legnica (since 2004 - Associated Out-Of-Town Education Centres), while in the years 1982-2005, activity of this kind was also undertaken at the Branch in Wałbrzych.