Satisfying human needs is inextricably linked to the mineral wealth of our planet. Ensuring raw materials in the necessary quantitative and qualitative parameters requires considerable effort on the part of man, especially if mineral raw materials are obtained under increasingly complex conditions. The process of obtaining mineral raw materials requires specialists who have a complex of knowledge and skills that enable solving professional and managerial problems in all its breadth and complexity. The economics of raw materials, as it is a multidisciplinary field of knowledge integrating deposit geology, mining, processing, economics and management, has the necessary prerequisites not only to study the subject matter, but also to prepare the necessary experts.