The history of the faculty begins on January 16, 1922, when the Polytechnic Faculty was opened based on the decision of the Board of Professors of Tbilisi University.
Initially, there were three departments at the polytechnic faculty: construction, mechanical and three-dimensional. The mining department included specialties - mining (operational), metallurgical and chemical-technological.
On October 1, 1928, by the decision of the Georgian government, the State Polytechnic Institute of Georgia was opened on the basis of the Polytechnic Faculty of Tbilisi University, which at the beginning had the following faculties: I. Faculty of Construction, II. Mechanical Faculty, III. Mining and chemical faculty, which was represented in two departments: 1. mining and 2. chemical-technological. Grigol Tsulukidze was appointed as the Dean of the Mining Faculty.
As a result of the reorganization of Georgian higher education institutions in 1930, six institutes were created on the basis of the Polytechnic Institute of Georgia, among which was the Transcaucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute. Since such a reorganization was completely unjustified, the process of unification of the fragmented institutions soon began. In 1932, the Transcaucasian Mining and Chemical Institute was established on the basis of mining-metallurgical and chemical-technological institutes. In 1933, the mining-chemical, engineering-construction and energy institutes were united under the name of the Transcaucasian Industrial Institute, after the Transcaucasian Federation was abolished, the institute was renamed the Georgian Industrial Institute.
In 1947, when the Industrial Institute of Georgia celebrated its 25th anniversary of higher technical education, it was given the name of Polytechnic Institute of Georgia. The mining faculty was among the 6 faculties in the institute at that time.
Already in 1972, when the 50th anniversary of the Polytechnic Institute of Georgia was celebrated, 28 faculties, 102 cathedras were functioning in the institute and engineers were being trained in 62 specialties. 15 faculties functioned only at the day-time learning, including: at the mining faculty (dean D. Bezhashvili), six specialties were taught, and 6 cathedras were functioning at the faculty. The Faculty of Geology (Dean G. Japaridze) was taught in four specialties, the faculty was served by 5 cathedras.
The following worked as deans of the Mining Faculty at different times: R. Jikia, K. Gabunia, G. Chkheidze, G. Kartvelishvili, b. Abesadze, N. Tkemaladze, D. Shervashidze, A. Laliev, G. Japaridze.
In 1955, the faculty was named mining-geological. From 1971 to 1992, the mining and geological faculties existed separately, and in 1992 they were united again. During this period, the deans of the Faculty of Mining were D. Bezhashvili, B. Demetradze, G. Butskhrikidze; Geological Faculty - G. Japaridze, V. Chumburidze, T. Lortkipanidze, Z. Mgeladze. Z. Mgeladze was elected as the dean of the United Mining and Geological Faculty. Since 2005, the dean of the faculty was A. Abshilava.
In recent years, 14 cathedras, most of which were profiled ones, were in charge of student education at the faculty at all three levels of education. Many prominent scientists and public figures who played a major role in the creation and development of the modern engineering school worked at this department at different times.
Currently, five departments manage the educational activities of students at the faculty: