Aims
Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X) is an international open access journal that covers the broad field of mineralogy, economic mineral resources, mineral exploration, innovative mining techniques and advances in mineral processing. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.
Subject Areas
mineralogy and mineral resources
advances in mineral analytical techniques
new minerals and mineral data
gems and gem deposits
biomineralogy
industrial minerals
exploration and mining geology
mining, technology and mineral engineering
mineral metallurgy

Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Mineral Processing and Metallurgy Section
Mineral Deposits Section
Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry Section
Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology Section
Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals Section
Editors (9)
Prof. Dr. Paul Sylvester E-Mail Website 
Editor-in-Chief
Endowed Pevehouse Chair, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053, USA
Interests: laser ablation ICP-MS; automated SEM; accessory mineral geochronology; mineral geochemistry; ore mineralogy; shale mineralogy
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Prof. Dr. Huifang Xu E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Department of Geoscience, and Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Tel. 608-2655887 
Interests: nano-mineralogy; mineral–water interactions; rock-forming minerals; transmission electron microscopy; electron diffraction; clay minerals; mineral surfaces; mineral defects
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Prof. Dr. Nigel J. Cook E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Tel. +61405826057 
Interests: ore minerals; trace element analysis; ore deposit geology
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Prof. Dr. Karen Hudson-Edwards E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Environment & Sustainability Institute and Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn Cornwall TR10 9DF, UK
Tel. 07588-604-963 
Interests: mine waste characterization; management and remediation; environmental mineralogy; mineral-microbe interactions; mineral dissolution; sulfate minerals; biogeochemical cycles; economic geology
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Prof. Dr. Theodore J. Bornhorst E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Executive Director of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum and Professor of Geology, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
Tel. 1-906-487-2721 
Interests: economic geology; geochemistry, petrology, Precambrian geology and environmental geochemistry of mine wastes
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Prof. Dr. Hanumantha Rao Kota E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: surface and pulp chemistry of flotation; flotation of sulphide, industrial, silicate and iron minerals; molecular modelling of inorganic/organic interfaces; minerals bioprocessing; coal preparation
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Prof. Dr. Alexander R Cruden E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melborne, Victoria 3156, Australia
Interests: magma transport and emplacement; physical processes in magmatic sulfide deposits; structural controls on ore deposits
Prof. Sytle M. M. Antao E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: crystal structure; chemistry; mineralogy; crystallography; powder diffraction; single-crystal diffraction; electron microscopy
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Dr. Adrian Jones E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Interests: carbonatites; deep carbon mineralogy; rare earth minerals; shocked minerals; impact deposits; alkaline igneous rocks; igneous layered intrusions; diamond
Previous Editors (2)
Prof. Dr. Robert Larry Grayson * E-Mail Website 
Former Editor-in-Chief


Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 103A Hosler Building, State College, PA 16802, USA
Tel. 1-814-863-1644 
Interests: mine safety and health; risk management; underground mining; coal mining methods and management
* Editor-in-Chief of Minerals from 2010 until January 2013. 
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Prof. Dr. Stephen E. Haggerty * E-Mail Website 
Former Editor-in-Chief


Department Earth & Environmental Sciences PC 344, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Fax: +1 305 663 9466 
Interests: oxide and sulfide minerals and related ore deposits [especially Fe, Fe-Ti, Mn, Cr]; PGEs; gem stones [especially diamonds]; deep Earth mantle mineralogy
* Editor-in-Chief of Minerals from 2013 until March 2016 
Editorial Board Members (189)
Dr. Pura Alfonso Abella E-Mail Website 


Departament d'Enginyeria Minera, Industrial i TIC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08242 Manresa, Spain
Interests: ore deposits; quantitative mineralogy; geometallurgy; mineral processing; mineral liberation (liberation degree); advanced mineralogical characterisation equipment
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Process Mineralogy of Critical Metals
Special Issue in Minerals: Mineral Liberation
Prof. Dr. Evgeny V. Alekseev E-Mail Website 


Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52428 Jülich, Germany
Interests: crystal structure; mineral-like materials; uranium; thorium; crystallography
Dr. Paul Alexandre E-Mail Website 


Department of Geology, Brandon University, John R. Brodie Science Centre, 270–18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6A9, Canada
Interests: geochemical exploration; metallogeny; geostatistics; mineralogy; geochronology
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Geosciences: Geochronology Applied to Metallogeny and Deposit Studies
Special Issue in Minerals: Novel Methods and Applications for Mineral Exploration
Dr. Saiied Aminossadati E-Mail Website 


Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: thermofluids; mine ventilation; CFD in mining; fibre optic sensing; gas management systems
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Special Issue in Minerals: Advanced Underground Mine Ventilation and Monitoring Systems
Special Issue in Sensors: Photonic Crystal Fiber Gas Sensor
Prof. Dr. Shoji Arai E-Mail Website 


Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
Interests: petrology, geochemistry and mineralogy of mantle-derived rocks
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Special Issue in Minerals: Petrology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Mantle as Tools to Read Messages from the Earth’s Interior
Prof. Dr. Luis Barbero E-Mail Website 


School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real Cádiz, Spain
Interests: UAV in environmental research; submarine groundwater discharge; radiogenic isotope geochemistry
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Special Issue in Minerals: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Geology and Environmental Modelling
Dr. Andrei Y. Barkov E-Mail Website 


Research Laboratory of Industrial and Ore Mineralogy, Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets, Russia
Interests: platinum-group minerals; ore minerals; Ni-Cu-Cr-PGE mineralization; mafic-ultramafic complexes; layered intrusions; ore-forming processes; placer deposits
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Special Issue in Minerals: Platinum-Group Minerals: New Results and Advances in PGE Mineralogy in Various Ni-Cu-Cr-PGE Ore Systems
Prof. Dr. Paul Bédard E-Mail Website 


Sciences de la Terre, LabMaTer, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada
Interests: rare earth deposits; niobium deposits; carbonatite; reference materials; XRF; handheld XRF
Prof. Dr. Adrián Durán Benito E-Mail Website 


Departamento de Química, Universidad de Navarra, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Interests: cultural heritage; archaeometry; pigments; mortars; XRD; SEM; IR and Raman spectrocopies
Prof. Dr. Mostafa Benzaazoua E-Mail Website 


Reserach Institute in Mining and Environment, University of Quebec (RIME-UQAT), Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
Interests: inorganic industrial and mining wastes; environmental characterization; treatment and recycling of industrial and mining wastes; waste reprocessing; integrated management of mining wastes
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Towards a Sustainable Management of Mine Wastes: Reprocessing, Reuse, Revalorization and Repository
Special Issue in Minerals: Recent Trends in Phosphate Mining and Beneficiation and Related Waste Management