Mineral Deposits
A section of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Section Information
The Mineral Deposits Section focuses on all types of mineral deposits, including metallic deposits and deposits of industrial rocks and minerals. A wide breadth of contributions is welcomed from descriptive to exploration to genetic models at microscopic to deposit to district scales. Contributions are expected to provide significant new information and insight into mineral deposits using standard to novel approaches. In addition, authors are encouraged to submit reviews of a particular deposit, a district, or type of deposit.
Keywords:
- Economic geology;
- Mineral deposits;
- Metallic mineral deposits;
- Gem deposits
- Industrial rocks and minerals;
- Ore deposits;
- Mineral deposit geology;
- Metallogeny;
- Mineral deposit processes;
- Mineral deposit genesis;
- Mineral exploration;
- Ore minerals;
- Hydrothermal minerals;
- Mineralization
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Multi-Method (Geo-) Thermochronology and Trace Elements Tracing Magmatism, Mineralization and Tectonic Evolution (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- The Formation and Evolution of Gold Deposits in China (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Sulfide Mineralogy and Geochemistry (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Gypsum Crystals: The Importance and the Role of Calcium Sulphate in Past and Modern Environments (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Genesis, Geochemistry and Mineralization of Metallic Minerals (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Pegmatites as Hosts of Critical Metals: From Petrogenesis to Mineral Exploration (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Gem Deposits: Mineralogical and Gemological Aspects, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Genesis, Age and Mineralization of Emeralds and Related Gems (Deadline: 30 October 2024)
- Ag-Pb-Zn Deposits: Geology and Geochemistry (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- The Role of Hydrocarbons in the Genesis of Mineral Deposits (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Native Gold as a Specific Indicator Mineral for Gold Deposits, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Mars: Everything You Need to Know about the Red Planet (Deadline: 22 November 2024)
- Role of Granitic Magmas in Porphyry, Epithermal, and Skarn Deposits (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Stratabound Barite Deposits: Mineralogy, Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- New Discovery and Exploration Methods of Porphyry and Epithermal Mineral Deposits (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Selenium, Tellurium and Precious Metal Mineralogy (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
- Trace Elements in Bauxite Deposits: Critical Georesource and Significant Indicators of Paleoenvironmental Conditions (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Mineralogical and Geochemical Characterization of Zn-Pb Ore Deposits: Insights into Their Genesis, Implications for Exploration, and Environmental Issues (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Metallogenic Regularity and Metallographic Prediction of Strategic Deposits (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Geochemistry and Genesis of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Siliciclastic Sandstone Diagenesis: Are Existing Models Correct? (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Rare-Metal Granites (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Petrogenesis of Large Igneous Province and Rare Earth–Rare Metal Deposits (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Mineral Resources in North China Craton (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Fluid Inclusion Study of Gold Deposits Endowed in Critical Metals (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- From Mantle to Market: Platinum Group Elements and Minerals and Their Geological Significance (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Genesis and Evolution of Pb-Zn-Ag Polymetallic Deposits: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 17 January 2025)
- Structure and Origin of Gold Mineralization: From Primary to Placer Gold Deposits (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Submarine Volcanism, Related Hydrothermal Systems and Mineralizations (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Using Mineral Chemistry to Characterize Ore-Forming Processes (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Microanalysis Applied to Mineral Deposits (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Footprints of Mineral Systems with IOCG, IOA and Affiliated Critical Metal Deposits: From Metasomatism to Metamorphism (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Recent Developments in Rare Metal Mineral Deposits (Deadline: 14 March 2025)
- Mineralization Mechanism and Geochemical Characteristics of Coals and Associated Minerals (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Petrological, Geochemical and Geodynamic Study of Ophiolites and Modern Oceanic Lithosphere (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Polymetallic Ore Deposits (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Exploration, Geometallurgy and Geoenvironmental Assessment of Economic Deposits (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Genesis and Metallogeny of Non-ferrous and Precious Metal Deposits, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: "Critical and Strategic Minerals", 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Critical Metal Minerals, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Mineralogy of Porphyry Systems: Genesis, Exploration, and Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Mineralization and Geochemistry of VMS Deposits (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Geology, Geochemistry, Genesis, Modeling, Structure and Exploration of Copper Polymetallic Deposits (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Ore Deposits Related to Metamorphism (Deadline: 30 October 2025)