10th Anniversary of Minerals: Frontiers of Mineral Science
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 70023
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser ablation ICP-MS; automated SEM; accessory mineral geochronology; mineral geochemistry; ore mineralogy; shale mineralogy
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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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Interests: economic geology; geochemistry, petrology, Precambrian geology and environmental geochemistry of mine wastes
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Interests: biocorrosion; bioelectrochemistry; bioflotation; biogeochemistry; bioleaching; biomining; biooxidation; bioprecipitation; bioreduction; bioremediation; circular economy; resource recovery; waste management; wastewater treatment
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Interests: ore minerals; trace element analysis; ore deposit geology
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Interests: mineralogy; nano-minerals; origin of dolomite; carbon and carbonate cycles; interface geochemistry; XRD; electron microscopy; X-ray and neutron total scattering of minerals
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Interests: magma transport and emplacement; physical processes in magmatic sulfide deposits; structural controls on ore deposits
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Interests: crystal structure; chemistry; mineralogy; crystallography; powder diffraction; single-crystal diffraction; electron microscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since its inception a decade ago, Minerals has seen tremendous growth in terms of the breadth of its scientific scope and the numbers of manuscripts submitted, papers published, and citations received each year. It occupies a unique niche in the community of mineral science and engineering journals in that the wide extent of its technical coverage allows for researchers to explore overlaps and interactions between disciplines that might be discouraged in more narrowly focused journals.
In celebration of the achievements of its first decade and to look ahead towards possible frontier research directions for its next decade, we invite submissions that illustrate new approaches or research results that may make significant impacts on the core fields of interest of the journal: Mineral Processing and Metallurgy, Mineral Deposits, Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry, Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology, and Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals. Of particular interest are studies that have significance for multiple of the core fields. Additionally, research relevant to recognized “frontier” topics in the mineral sciences is particularly welcome: the properties and effects of nanominerals and other nanoparticles (including those produced by mining) in the crust–ocean–atmosphere, mineral imaging of composition and age, single particle analysis of mineral aerosols, and the application of data analysis and visualization methods to large mineral databases.
Note: The Special Issue will contain invitation-only original research and review articles. Accepted papers will be published free of any charge.
Prof. Dr. Paul Sylvester
Prof. Dr. Hanumantha Rao Kota
Prof. Dr. Theodore Bornhorst
Dr. Anna H. Kaksonen
Prof. Dr. Nigel J. Cook
Prof. Dr. Huifang Xu
Prof. Dr. Alexander R Cruden
Dr. Sytle M. Antao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Mineral processing
- Mineral deposits
- Environmental mineralogy
- Biomineralization
- Biological mineral solubilization
- Mineral geochemistry and geochronology
- Crystallography and physical chemistry of minerals
- Frontier research
- Mineral science
- Mineral engineering
- Nanominerals
- Mineral imaging
- Single particle analysis
- Large mineral databases
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