The Department of Economics and Control Systems is a workplace that guarantees the study program Mineral Economics and study branch Economics and Control in Raw Materials Field. The Department educates future specialists who understand commodity markets, are able to trade in commodities, and who are equipped to manage processes in prospecting, mining, and processing of raw materials not only economically but also in compliance with environmental policies. Scientific and research activities is focused on problematic related with raw materials and mining industry. In particularly it is analysis of mining enterprises, economical and financial analysis of mining enterprises, benchmarking, evaluation of project in raw materials field, expanded and virtual reality to control processes, model and simulate processes and RFID applications. An RFID laboratory has made an integral part of the Department since 2009. RFID laboratory focuses on the systems of automatic collection of data from RFID tags.