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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Robert Larry Grayson
Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 103A Hosler Building, State College, PA 16802, USA
Website: http://www.eme.psu.edu/faculty/grayson.html
E-Mail: rlg19@psu.edu
Interests: mine safety and health; risk management; underground mining; coal mining methods and management

Managing Editor
Ms. Elissa Ge
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: elissa.ge@mdpi.com

Production Editor
Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
E-Mail: pike@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Dr. Radostina G. Atanassova
Department of Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 24 Acad. Georgi Bonchev str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel. +359 2 979 22 07; Fax: +359 2 872 46 38
Website: http://www.geology.bas.bg/~radi/
E-Mail: radi@geology.bas.bg
Interests: ore mineralogy; crystal growth and morphology; environmental mineralogy

Dr. Janice L. Bishop
The SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Website: http://www.seti.org/bishop
E-Mail: jbishop@seti.org
Interests: spectroscopy; mineralogy; mars analog materials; planetary science

Dr. Daniel M. Deocampo
Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University, 24 Peachtree Ctr Avenue, Kell Hall 340, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Tel. +1 404 4135759; Fax: +1 404 4135768
Website: http://geosciences.gsu.edu/5080.html
E-Mail: deocampo@gsu.edu
Interests: clay mineralogy; carbonates; low-temperature diagenesis; sedimentology; limnogeology; soils and paleosols; X-ray diffraction

Dr. Dimitrina Dimitrova
Department of Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 24 Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str. 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel. +359 2 9792260; Fax: +3598724638
Website: http://www.geology.bas.bg/~didi/
E-Mail: didi@geology.bas.bg
Interests: ore mineralogy; Au, Ag and base metal deposits; mineral transformations; environmental mineralogy; geochemistry; LA-ICP-MS

Prof. Dr. Bernard Grobéty
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Ch. du Musée 6, Fribourg CH-1723, Switzerland
Tel. +41 26 300 89 36; Fax: +41 26 300 97 42
Website: http://www.unifr.ch/geoscience/
E-Mail: bernard.grobety@unifr.ch
Interests: mineralogy; environmental mineralogy; volcanic aerosols; applied mineralogy; electron microscopy

Prof. Dr. Stephen E. Haggerty
Department Earth & Environmental Sciences PC 344, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Tel. +1 305 348 7338; Fax: +1 305 663 9466
Website: http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/haggerty/
E-Mail: haggerty@geo.umass.edu
Interests: oxide and sulfide minerals and related ore deposits [especially Fe, Fe-Ti, Mn, Cr]; PGEs; gem stones [especially diamonds]; deep Earth mantle mineralogy

Dr. Victoria E. Hamilton
Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St., Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
Tel. +1 720 2400115; Fax: +1 303 5469687
Website: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hamilton/
E-Mail: hamilton@boulder.swri.edu
Interests: planetary geoscience; reflectance spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy; mineralogy

Dr. Michael Hitch
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Website: http://www.mining.ubc.ca/MHitch.html
E-Mail: mhitch@mining.ubc.ca
Interests: mineral economics and mine planning; mineral carbonation and CO2 sequestration; mineral slurry transportation systems
Contribution: Special Issue: Mineral Presorting

Prof. Dr. Thomas N. Kerestedjian
Department of Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 24 Acad. Georgi Bonchev str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel. +3592 9792 244; Fax: +3592 8724 638
Website: http://www.geology.bas.bg/~thomas
E-Mail: thomas@geology.bas.bg
Interests: mineralogy; ore geology; crystal growth; crystal structure; powder diffraction; crystal morphology; sector zoning; twining; environmental mineralogy; geochemistry; databases

Dr. Motohiko Murakami
Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
Tel. +81 22 795 6664; Fax: +81 22 795 6664
Website: http://www.ganko.tohoku.ac.jp/bussei/member/Murakami/
E-Mail: motohiko@m.tohoku.ac.jp
Interests: high-pressure mineral physics; mineralogy of deep planetary interior

Dr. Fleurice Parat
Geosciences Montpellier UMR 5243 - CC 60, Universite Montpellier 2, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France
Website: http://www.minpet.uni-freiburg.de/sites/personen/parat.html
E-Mail: Fleurice.Parat@gm.univ-montp2.fr
Interests: igneous petrology; mineralogy; geochemistry; volcanology

Dr. David Phillips
School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, VIC, Australia
Tel. +61 3 8344 6524; Fax: +61 3 8344 7761
Website: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/php/view_profile.php?id=dphillip
E-Mail: dphillip@unimelb.edu.au
Interests: ore deposit geology; 40Ar/39Ar geochronology; mantle mineralogy; diamonds; mineral inclusions in diamonds

Dr. Catherine W. Skinner
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA
Tel. +1 203 432 3787
Website: http://earth.geology.yale.edu/people/moreinfo.cgi?netid=cs78
E-Mail: catherine.skinner@yale.edu
Interests: biominerals; minerals and health; particulates inorganic and biologic; asbestos

Dr. Alireza Somarin
Office: 2-09 Brodie Science Building, Department of Geology, Brandon University,Brandon, Manitoba, R7A 6A9, Canada
Website: http://www2.brandonu.ca/geology/somarin/somarin.html
E-Mail: somarina@brandonu.ca
Interests: mineralogy; geochemistry; hydrothermal alteration; ore deposit

Prof. Dr. James V. Taranik
Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, MS 172, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557-0172, USA
Tel. +1 775 742 7189; Fax: +1 775 746 2213
Website: http://www.mines.unr.edu/able
E-Mail: jtaranik@unr.edu
Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing; mineralogy; hydrothermal alteration; mineral exploration; metallogeny; geology of ore deposits

Prof. Dr. Spencer R. Titley
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 6018; Fax: +1 520 621 762
Website: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/web/Titley/ST_page.html
E-Mail: stitley@email.arizona.edu
Interests: mineralogy and geochemistry of hydrothermal systems; surficial modification of ore systems

Dr. Panagiotis Voudouris
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, Panepistimioupolis-Ano Ilisia, 15784 Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 7274129
Website: http://www.voudouris.org/
E-Mail: voudouris@geol.uoa.gr
Interests: ore mineralogy; ore deposits geology; geochemistry; mineralogy
Contribution: Special Issue: Advances in Rhenium Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Industrial Uses

Dr. Frank Wendler
Institute of Materials and Processes, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestr. 30, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel. +49 721 925 2319; Fax: +49 721 925 2348
Website: http://www.iaf.hs-karlsruhe.de/ice/ice/nestler/index.php?id=13&tx_hsistaff_pi1[uid]=9&tx_hsistaff_pi1[mode]=1&cHash=fd4aab987c
E-Mail: frank.wendler@hs-karlsruhe.de
Interests: modelling and simulation; multiscale modeling; hydrothermal; growth; rock vein sealing; partially molten rocks; micromagnetism; displacive phase transitions

Dr. Huifang Xu
Department of Geoscience, and Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Website: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~hfxu/
E-Mail: hfxu@geology.wisc.edu
Interests: nano-mineralogy; mineral-water interactions; rock-forming minerals; transmission electron microscopy; electron diffraction; clay minerals; mineral surfaces; mineral defects

Prof. Dr. Tuncel M. Yegulalp
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University, 500 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA
Tel. +1 212 854 2984; Fax: +1 212 854 7081
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~yegulalp/
E-Mail: yegulalp@columbia.edu
Interests: mining engineering/operations research; statistics; carbon capture; zero emission power plants; methane hydrates

Dr. Massimiliano Zanin
Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, Mawson Lakes 5095 SA, Australia
Tel. +61 8 8302 3263; Fax: +61 8 8302 3683
Website: http://www.unisa.edu.au/iwri/staffpages/massimilianozanin.asp
E-Mail: massimiliano.zanin@unisa.edu.au
Interests: minerals processing; froth flotation; recycling; process optimization; sustainable use of resources

Dr. Michael E. Zolensky
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058, USA
Tel. +1 281 4835128; Fax: +1 281 4835347
Website: http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/People/zolensky.html
E-Mail: michael.e.zolensky@nasa.gov
Interests: crystallography; mineralogy; geochemistry; planetary science

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