About Minerals
Aims
Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X) is an international open access journal that covers the broad fields of mineralogy, mineral geochemistry and geochronology, economic mineral resources, mineral exploration, innovative mining techniques, and advances in mineral processing. Within this journal, reviews, regular research papers, and short notes are published. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their observational, analytical, experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. The papers published within Minerals are encouraged to be 35 printed pages or less, although longer papers may be accepted with the permission of the Editors. In order to enable the results to be reproduced, the full experimental details must be provided.
Subject Areas
- Mineralogy and mineral deposits;
- Metallic minerals;
- Mineral geochemistry and geochronology;
- Advances in mineral analytical techniques;
- New minerals and mineral data;
- Crystallography and physical chemistry of minerals and nanominerals;
- Gems and gem deposits;
- Environmental mineralogy and biogeochemistry;
- Biomineralogy;
- Industrial minerals;
- Clays and engineered mineral materials;
- Mineral exploration methods and mining geology;
- Mining technology and mineral engineering;
- Mineral processing and extractive metallurgy.
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