Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Minerals maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 252 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 19 days and the median time to publication was 48 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Abella, Pura Alfonso | Liu, Jia |
| Addai-Mensah, Jonas | Liu, Wenying |
| Afanasiev, P. | Liu, Yanan |
| Agnieszka, Gruszecka-Kosowska | Locock, Andrew |
| Agorhom, Eric Aminartey | Lodge, Robert |
| Aines, Roger D. | Loredo, Jorge |
| Akar, Gul | Losada-Perez, Patricia |
| Akbari, Hamid | Lu, Liming |
| Alagha, Lana | Luca, Raffaella |
| Alehossein, Habib | Lundström, Mari |
| Allen, Charlotte | Luptakova, Alena |
| Almeida, José António De | Lüttge, Andreas |
| Alonzo D., Cook | Ma, Tianshou |
| Alorro, Richard Diaz | Machala, Libor |
| Amankwah, Anthony | Mackinnon, Ian D.R. |
| Amato, Alessia | Majka, Jarosław |
| Amenabar, Maximiliano | Malaiškienė, Jurgita |
| Amils, Ricardo | Maldonado, Miguel |
| Andersen, Jens | Malkovsky, Victor Ioannovich |
| Andrä, Heiko | Mantovani, Luciana |
| Anthony, Ben | Marini, Paola |
| Aparicio, Conrado | Márquez, Gonzalo |
| Apopei, Andrei Ionut | Marsalek, Roman |
| Arbuzov, S.I. | Marta, Padoan |
| Ardakani, Omid | Martín-Crespo, Tomás |
| Ardit, Matteo | Martinetti, Alberto |
| Arena, Derrick Adam | Martínez, I. |
| Arias, José L. | Martín-Izard, Agustín |
| Ashekuzzaman, S.M. | Martins, Tania |
| Atkins, Anthony S. | Masoumi, Hossein |
| Augustsson, Carita | Mateo-Lázaro, Jesús |
| Aureliano, Manuel | Mathur, Ryan |
| Awe, Samuel | Mavromatis, Vasileios |
| Ayele, Yonas Zewdu | McBriarty, Martin |
| Azevedo, Leonardo | McDonald, Robbie |
| B. Larsen, Rune | McFadzean, Belinda |
| Bach, Vanessa | Mclemore, Virginia T. |
| Badenhorst, Heinrich | McMaster, Scott |
| Bakker, Ronald | Medas, Daniela |
| Balassone, Giuseppina | Melchiorre, Erik |
| Balomenos, Thymis | Melgarejo Draper, Joan Carles |
| Baltakys, Kestutis | Menad, Nourreddine Eddine |
| Bark, Glenn | Menéndez-Aguado, J.M. |
| Bas, Ahmet Deniz | Mercier, Guy |
| Bascompta, Marc | Mesbah, Adel |
| Bazin, Glaude | Miki, Hajime |
| Beck, Andrew | Milsch, Harald |
| Bédard, Paul | Minniakhmetov, Ilnur |
| Belviso, Claudia | Miraglia, Salvatore |
| Bender, Kelly | Mitra, Subhasish |
| Benison, Kathy | Młynarczykowska, Anna |
| Benito, José Manuel | Molnar, Ferenc |
| Benzerara, Karim | Montanari, R. |
| Berry, Ron | Montero, José-María |
| Bhattacharyya, Amrita | Montorsi, Monia |
| Billström, Kjell | Montoya, Alejandro |
| Bindi, Luca | Moore, Moreton |
| Bindschedler, Saskia | Moreno-Maroto, José Manuel |
| Blanchard, Peter E.R. | Morishita, Tomoaki |
| Blazquez, Maria Luisa | Moxon, Terry |
| Block, Karin | Mu, Yufan |
| Bobadilla Fazzini, Roberto | Mudd, Gavin |
| Bobicki, Erin R. | Mueller, Paul A. |
| Boehm, Andreas | Mueller, Ute |
| Bontempi, Elza | Mugnaioli, Enrico |
| Borkiewicz, Olaf | Muppaneni, Tapaswy |
| Borra, Chenna Rao | Mustoe, George E. |
| Bosse, Valerie | Nagaraj, D.R. |
| Bournival, Ghislain | Nagashima, Mariko |
| Bouropoulos, Nikolaos | Najorka, Jens |
| Bowles, John | Nanev, Christo |
| Boxall, Naomi | Natalicchio, Marcello |
| Brauer, Suzanna | Neculita, Carmen Mihaela |
| Brendlé, Jocelyne | Nejbert, Krzysztof |
| Brezáni, Ivan | Newton, Aric |
| Britvin, Sergey N. | Nguyen, Nghiem Van |
| Brueckner, Stefanie | Ninomiya, Yoshihiko |
| Buckman, Jim | Nishimura, Tatsuya |
| Budzyn, Bartosz | Noble, Aaron |
| Burat, Fırat | Nowak, Jacek |
| Çabalar, Ali Firat | Nowak, Pawel |
| Cabedo, Luis | Nuss, Philip |
| Campbell, Andrew R. | Obracaj, Dariusz |
| Carmicahel, Sarah | O'Connor, Louisa |
| Case, George | Oggeri, Claudio |
| Castellini, Elena | Oikonomopoulos, Ioannis |
| Castilla-Gómez, Jorge | Ojovan, Michael |
| Castro, Laura | Okumura, Masahiko |
| Castro-Gomes, João | Olea, Ricardo |
| Cavalazzi, Barbara | Oliva, Josep |
| Cavalline, Tara | Omelon, Sidney |
| Cecilia, Juan Antonio | Önder, Mustafa |
| Cejka, Jiri | Ortega, J. Marcos |
| Cepedal, Antonia | Ortiz, Julián |
| Chapman, Robert | Orucoglu, Esra |
| Chaumba, Jeff | Oshtrakh, Michael |
| Chauviré, Boris | Oskierski, Hans |
| Chelgani, Saeed Chehreh | Özcan, H. Kurtulus |
| Chen, Cheng | Özkul, Mehmet |
| Chen, Pao-Chi | Palchik, Vyacheslav |
| Cheng, Liang | Pan, Lei |
| Cheong, Chang-Sik | Pan, Shu-Yuan |
| Chessa, Manuela | Pan, Wei-Ping |
| Chiozzi, Paolo | Papastergios, Georgios |
| Chivers, Tristram | Parbhakar-Fox, Anita |
| Choi, Heekyu | Pardoen, Benoît |
| Choi, Siyoung Q. | Park, Cheon-Young |
| Chopard, Aurélie | Park, Sol-Moi |
| Choulet, Flavien | Pascual Martínez, Emilio |
| Christanis, Kimon | Pasquier, Louis-César |
| Christiansen, Eric | Pastero, Linda |
| Christy, Andrew G. | Patterson, Joseph P. |
| Ciceri, Davide | Pavese, Alessandro |
| Ciesielczuk, Justyna | Pawlik, Marek |
| Cilliers, Jan | Pellicani, Roberta |
| Cisternas, Luis A. | Peng, Felicia |
| Cohen, David | Peng, Hong |
| Colomban, Philippe | Pérez-Tello, Manuel |
| Connor, Jason | Peter, Wynn |
| Cook, Nigel | Petrakis, Evangelos |
| Corin, Kirsten Claire | Petranikova, Martina |
| Costin, Gelu | Phillips, Steve |
| Courtin-Nomade, Alexandra | Picard, Donald |
| Coveney, Raymond | Pickles, Chris |
| Cristelo, Nuno Miguel | Pieczka, Adam |
| Crivelli, Davide | Pierre, Francesco Dela |
| Crocket, Kirsty | Pietrodangelo, Adriana |
| Dai, Zongfu | Pietrusiak, Damian |
| Danko, George | Piña, Rubén |
| Davide, Mombelli | Pingitore, Nicholas |
| Day, Warren C. | Pironon, Jacques |
| De Giudici, Giovanni | Pita, Fernando |
| Debaille, Vinciane | Placzek, Christa J. |
| Dedzo, Gustave Kenne | Plante, Benoit |
| Del Hoyo, C. | Pokrovsky, Oleg S. |
| Delle Rose, Marco | Poli, Emiliano |
| Demers, Isabelle | Polini, Riccardo |
| Demichelis, Raffaella | Pollmann, Katrin |
| Deniz, Vedat | Pomi, Raffaella |
| Di Palma, Luca | Pontié, Maxime |
| Di, Haibin | Popov, Dmitry |
| DiBenedetto, Francesco | Potra, Adriana |
| Dinis, Maria De Lurdes Proença De Amorim | Pratt, Dyan |
| Dlugogorski, Bogdan Z. | Précigout, Jacques |
| Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa F. | Předota, Milan |
| Dominguez-Ramos, Antonio | Prendes-Gero, Maria Belen |
| Donatello, Shane | Pring, Allan |
| Dorado Castaño, Antonio David | Prusek, Stanisław |
| Dostal, Jaroslav | Ptáček, Petr |
| Dragovic, Besim | Pulster, Erin |
| Drüppel, Kirsten | Putnis, Andrew |
| Drzymala, Jan | Putra, Heriansyah |
| Dubrule, Olivier | Pyrcz, Michael |
| Duchesne, Jean-Clair | Qiu, Kun-Feng |
| DuFrane, Scott Andrew | Quirt, David |
| Dumańska-Słowik, Magdalena | Ragozin, Alexey |
| Dyer, Laurence G. | Rahman, Md. Mujibur |
| Eble, Cortland | Rao, Ashit |
| Edraki, Mansour | Raptopoulou, Catherine P. |
| Ehrig, Kathy | Rassios, Annie Ewing |
| Einarsrud, Kristian Etienne | Rate, Andrew |
| Ejtemaei, Majid | Rddad, Larbi |
| Eliasson, Veronica | Redler, Charlotte |
| Elliott, Brent | Reed, David W. |
| Elmi Assadzadeh, Golpira | Regueiro, Richard A. |
| Elmi, Chiara | Renforth, Phil |
| Elsen, Jan | Renken, Albert |
| Emad, Muhammad Zaka | Renno, Axel D. |
| Emery, Xavier | Retegan, Teodora |
| Erastova, Valentina | Rey-Raap, Natalia |
| Ercikdi, Bayram | Riegler, Thomas |
| Eric, Franz | Rimondi, Valentina |
| Esmaeili, Kamran | Rivoirard, Jacques |
| Espinoza-Marzal, Rosa | Rocha, Fernando T.F.T. |
| Estokova, Adriana | Rodehorst, Uta C. |
| Etschmann, Barbara | Rodríguez, Gloria Belén Ramírez |
| Exadaktylos, George | Rodriguez-Navarro, Carlos |
| Eyre, Thomas | Rossana, Bellopede |
| Faheem, Ahmed F. | Rout, Surya Snata |
| Faraci, Francesca Dalia | Rowles, Matthew R. |
| Farrokhpay, Saeed | Royer, Jean-Jacques |
| Faybishenko, Boris A. | Rudolph, Martin |
| Feng, Qicheng | Ruello, Maria Letizia |
| Fernández, Raúl | Ruuska, Jari |
| Fernández-Díaz, Lourdes | Sabah, Eyüp |
| Fernandez-Martinez, Alejandro | Sabrina, Hedrich |
| Finkelman, Robert | Sadeghi, Behnam |
| Finneran, Kevin | Saini-Eidukat, Bernhardt |
| Flores, Deolinda | Sakimoto, Kelsey |
| Fornasiero, Daniel | Sanchez-Jimenez, Pedro E. |
| Forsberg, Kerstin | Sand, Anders |
| Forstner, Stephanie | Sanematsu, Kenzo |
| Fouedjio, Francky | Santoro, Luciano |
| Fowdar, Harsha | Santos, Rafael M. |
| Franz, Gerhard | Santos-Carballal, David |
| Frenzel, Max | Sarver, Emily |
| Frost, Ray | Sassoni, Enrico |
| Fujita, Toyohisa | Saternus, Mariola |
| Fulton, Mike | Saunders, James |
| Gabitov, Rinat | Savik, Svein |
| Gaillou, Eloise | Saydam, Serkan |
| Galuskin, Evgeny | Scala, Fabrizio |
| Gamage, Ranjith | Schaeben, Helmut |
| Gan, Quan | Schatzel, Steven |
| Gao, Xiaodong | Schindler, Michael |
| Gao, Zhiye | Schmidt, Jochen |
| Garcia, Rosario | Schobert, Harold |
| García-Veigas, Javier | Scholz, Miklas |
| Garg, Nishant | Schreiner, Marcus |
| Gartman, Amy | Schwarcz, Henry |
| Gattacceca, Jérôme | Schwarz, Phil |
| Gazley, Michael | Scribano, Vittorio |
| Gázquez, Fernando | Seifert, Soenke |
| Geatches, Dawn | Sejkora, Jiri |
| Gee, Carol | Shafiei, Ali |
| Gentina, Juan Carlos | Shang, Julie Q. |
| Genty, Eric | Shen, Baotang |
| Ghirian, Alireza | Shiers, Denis |
| Ghorbani, Yousef | Shin, Doyun |
| Gianni, Areti | Shokuhfar, Tolou |
| Glasspool, Ian | Shuster, Jeremiah |
| Godlewska-Żyłkiewicz, Beata | Si, Guangyao |
| Golla-Schindler, Ute Maria | Siedlecka, Ewa |
| Golokhvast, Kirill | Sierra-Fernández, Carlos |
| Gomari, Sina Rezaei | Silva, Z.C. |
| Gonzalez-Nicolas, Ana | Sinche Gonzalez, Maria |
| Goryachev, B.E. | Sindern, Sven |
| Gregory, Daniel D. | Sjöqvist, Axel |
| Guil, José María | Skemer, Philip |
| Guldris, Lorena | Sklute, Elizabeth |
| Gunasekara, Chamila | Slatt, Roger M. |
| Guo, Xiaofeng | Slowakiewicz, Miroslaw |
| Gupta, Nikhil | So, Jae-Seong |
| Gutzmer, Jens | Sobianowska-Turek, Agnieszka |
| Gyorgy, Czuppon | Song, Yungoo |
| Habashi, Fathi | Spagnoli, Dino |
| Haddadi, Farid | Spears, David Alan |
| Hagen-Peter, Graham | Spiers, Christopher |
| Hammarstrom, Jane | Sprio, Simone |
| Harlov, Daniel | Steele-MacInnis, Matthew |
| Harrison, Anna | Stefaniak, Paweł K. |
| Hartlieb, Philipp | Stoyanov, Stanislav R. |
| Hasan, Maruf | Strizhak, Pavel Alexandrovich |
| Hathon, Lori | Stuart, Finlay |
| He, Hongpin | Su, Qinglin |
| Hebblewhite, Bruce | Subías, Ignacio |
| Hedin, Niklas | Suorineni, Fidelis |
| Henry, Chris | Suryanto, Benny |
| Hernandez, Eduardo R. | Szczepaniak, Włodzimierz |
| Hirajima, Tsuyoshi | Szczerba, Marek |
| Hiroshi, Sakuma | Szilagyi, Robert |
| Hiskey, J. Brent | Taheri, Abbas |
| Hitzman, Murray | Tandlich, Roman |
| Hjertager, Bjørn | Tanner, Dominique |
| Hoagland, Porter | Tas, A. Cuneyt |
| Holmes, Ralph | Tavakoli, M.R. |
| Holuszko, Maria | Taxiarchou, Maria |
| Hopkinson, Laurence | Tayebi-Khorami, Maedeh |
| Horner, Olivier | Temel, Halime Abakay |
| Hower, Jim | Tenorio, Victor Octavio |
| Hu, Allen | Thiéry, Vincent |
| Huang, Chin-Pao | Thomas, Rainer |
| Huang, Qingqing | Thompson, Jay |
| Huang, Tony | Tian, Feng |
| Huang, Wu-Jang | Timón, Vicente |
| Hummer, Daniel | Tischler, Judith |
| Hunter, Timothy | Tobler, Dominique J. |
| Iglauer, Stefan | Tom, Leistner |
| Ilankoon, Saman | Torres Knoop, Ariana |
| İlhan, Sedat | Torró, Lisard |
| Innocenzi, Valentina | Torvela, Taija |
| Ippolito, Nicolò Maria | Tuovinen, Olli |
| Ivanov, Maxim | Turchyn, Sasha |
| Iveson, Alexander | Ueda, Takao |
| Jackson, Togwell | Ukar, Estibalitz |
| Jacobs, Michael H.G. | Ullmann, Clemens Vinzenz |
| Janots, Emilie | Ulven, Ole Ivar |
| Jaszczak, John A. | Urban, Petr |
| Jiao, Yongqin | Vaccaro, Carmela |
| Jin, Jiaqi | Valentim, Bruno |
| Jo, Ho Young | Vallianatos, Filippos |
| Johnston, Karen E. | Van Den Kerkhof, Alfons M. |
| Jones, Franca | Van Der Meer, Freek |
| Jorand, Frédéric P.A. | Van Driessche, Alexander |
| Jordens, Adam | Varvara, Simona |
| Jugo, Pedro | Vasilatos, Charalampos |
| Jyothi, Rajesh Kumar | Vasyukova , Olga |
| Kabelác, Martin | Vaziri, Behad |
| Kaduk, James | Velasquez, German |
| Kahl, Wolf-Achim | Verdeja, Luis Felipe |
| Kalaitzidis, Stavros | Verrelli, David |
| Kalbacova Vejpravova, Jana | Vicuña, Cristián Molina |
| Kalpaklı, Ahmet Orkun | Vieceli, Nathália |
| Kamennaya, Nina | Villain, Sylvie |
| Kampmann, Tobias C. | Vincenzi, Valentina |
| Kanellopoulos, Christos | Visaveliya, Nikunjkumar |
| Kangal, Murat Olgaç | Vlieg, Elias |
| Kantzas, Apostolos | Vos, Cornelius Francois |
| Kapsiotis, Argyrios | Voudouris, Panagiotis |
| Karakashev, Stoyan I. | Wagner, Nicola |
| Karakus, Murat | Wainwright, Alan |
| Karayigit, Ali Ihsan | Wang, Dengjun |
| Kauko, Leiviskä | Wang, Gang |
| Kawano, Jun | Wang, Gongwen |
| Kelm, Ursula | Wang, Hui |
| Khadilkar, Aditi | Wang, Jianwei |
| Khamkhash, Aibyek | Wang, Vincent Z. |
| Kim, Hyeong-Ki | Wang, Xuming |
| Kim, Hyunjung | Wang, Yuhe |
| Kim, Yi-Yeoun | Wang, Zhipeng |
| Kinnunen, Paivo | Wang, Zhongwei |
| Kitagawa, Jiro | Warszynski, Piotr |
| Klima, Mark | Watkin, Elizabeth |
| Ko, Ming-Sheng | Webb, John A. |
| Koenig, Alan | Webber, Grant |
| Kolker, Allan | Weiss, Chester |
| Komljenovic, Dragan | Wells, Rachel |
| König, Stephan | Wen, Xin |
| Kooyman, Patricia J. | Wendler, Frank |
| Kornienko, Nikolay | Westaway, Robert |
| Koshy, Pramod | Whiteley, Andrew |
| Koutselas, Ioannis | Wilde, Andy |
| Kovalenko, Galina A. | Wilkin, Richard |
| Kowalak, Stanisław | Winkelstern, Ian |
| Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw | Witt, Peter |
| Kracht, Willy | Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser, Cora |
| Kremer, Barbara | Wolf, Stephan E. |
| Krivolutskaya, Nadezhda A. | Wotruba, Hermann |
| Krivovichev, Vladimir | Wragg, David S. |
| Kumar, Aloke | Wysokowski, Marcin |
| Kurniawan, Winarto | Xia, Fang |
| Kurt, Krenn | Xia, Liuyin |
| Kutschke, Sabine | Xing, Huilin |
| Kuttner, Christian | Yahyaei, Mohsen |
| Kynický, Jindřich | Yajima, Taro |
| Kyzas, George Z. | Yamazaki, Tetsuo |
| Lanari, Pierre | Yanful, Ernest |
| Langley, Sean | Yang, Eric (Xue-Ming) |
| Lao, Jonathan | Yegulalp, Tuncel M. |
| Lascelles, Desmond | Yilmaz, Erol |
| Laskowski, Janusz | Yoo, Byung-Kuk |
| Latifi, Nima | Yoon, Roe-Hoan |
| Laukamp, Carsten | Yossifova, Mariana G. |
| Lavkulich, Les M. | Young, Courtney |
| Leary, Peter | Yu, Changxun |
| Lecumberri-Sanchez, Pilar | Yu, Cheng-Ju |
| Lee, Jaegeun | Yue, Guikuan |
| Lee, Joon Kyu | Yuk, Jong Min |
| Lee, Seung-Woo | Yvon, Jacques |
| Lefticariu, Liliana | Zawadzki, Jaroslaw |
| Lehto, Jukka | Zevenhoven, Ron |
| Lei, Qinghua | Zhang, Guangqing |
| Leißner, Thomas | Zhang, Jinhong |
| Lentz, David | Zhang, Junfang |
| León, Gerardo A. | Zhang, Kuangyuan |
| Leou, Keh-Chyang | Zhang, Lejun |
| Lerouge, Catherine | Zhang, Patrick |
| Lesparre, Nolwenn | Zhang, Ruiyong |
| Leverington, David W. | Zhang, Wei |
| Lewandowska, Anna | Zhou, Binzhong |
| Lezzerini, Marco | Zhou, Lingli |
| Li, Chao | Zhou, Xuejun |
| Li, Hangyu | Zhou, Z.A. (Joe) |
| Li, Jian | Zientek, Michael |
| Lichtenegger, Helga | Zimmermann, Robert |
| Lima, Selma M. | Zucali, Michele |
| Liu, Hongyuan |
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