Announcements

Minerals (ISSN: 2075-163X) has launched the “Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications” Section. The Section aims at publishing high-quality original research papers and critical reviews featuring the fundamental aspects and industrial applications in the field of mineral resources, including geological, geophysical, and geochemical methods, as well as satellite imagery. We invite contributions on historical, technical, and practical aspects of the exploration for mineral deposits. The papers should either focus on a novel methodology of mineral exploration or present case studies where established or innovative techniques were successfully used. In addition, we welcome contributions providing new insights into the foundations of geological, geophysical, and geochemical methods. The publications can be dedicated to field procedures and analytical techniques of geochemical exploration methods. Novel methods of gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic, radiometric, and seismic prospecting, in addition to their integration, including mathematical aspects of data processing and interpretation, as well as studies on remote sensing and geographic information systems in mineral exploration, are welcome. Airborne, ground, and borehole methods could be presented. We also encourage the submission of papers that report rock sample studies required for mineral exploration and propose new physical, chemical, and mineralogical techniques for identifying mineral targets.

We are pleased to present the 2021 Editor’s Choice Articles, a carefully curated list of high-quality articles from “Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications” listed below:

• “Systematic Review of Machine Learning Applications in Mining: Exploration, Exploitation, and Reclamation”
  by Dahee Jung and Yosoon Choi
  Minerals 2021, 11(2), 148; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11020148
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/2/148

• “Amp-TB2: An Updated Model for Calcic Amphibole Thermobarometry”
  by Filippo Ridolfi
  Minerals 2021, 11(3), 324; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030324
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/3/324

• “Shear-Related Gold Ores in the Wadi Hodein Shear Belt, South Eastern Desert of Egypt: Analysis of Remote Sensing, Field and Structural Data”
  by Mohamed Abd El-Wahed, Basem Zoheir, Amin Beiranvand Pour and Samir Kamh
  Minerals 2021, 11(5), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11050474
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/5/474

• “Evolution of Pyrite Compositions at the Sizhuang Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China: Implications for the Genesis of Jiaodong-Type Orogenic Gold Mineralization”
  by Zhankun Liu, Xiancheng Mao, Andrew Jedemann, Richard C. Bayless, Hao Deng, Jin Chen and Keyan Xiao
  Minerals 2021, 11(4), 344; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11040344
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/4/344

• “REEs in the North Africa P-Bearing Deposits, Paleoenvironments, and Economic Perspectives: A Review”
  by Roberto Buccione, Rabah Kechiched, Giovanni Mongelli and Rosa Sinisi
  Minerals 2021, 11(2), 214; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11020214
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/2/214

• “Multisource Data Analysis for Gold Potentiality Mapping of Atalla Area and Its Environs, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt”
  by Ali Shebl, Mahmoud Abdellatif, Sayed O. Elkhateeb and Árpád Csámer
  Minerals 2021, 11(6), 641; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11060641
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/6/641

• “Recovering Magnetization of Rock Formations by Jointly Inverting Airborne Gravity Gradiometry and Total Magnetic Intensity Data”
  by Michael Jorgensen and Michael S. Zhdanov
  Minerals 2021, 11(4), 366; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11040366
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/4/366

• “Ocean-Floor Sediments as a Resource of Rare Earth Elements: An Overview of Recently Studied Sites”
  by Jelena Milinovic, Francisco J. L. Rodrigues, Fernando J. A. S. Barriga and Bramley J. Murton
  Minerals 2021, 11(2), 142; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11020142
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/2/142

• “The Development History and Latest Progress of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Mining Technology”
  by Yajuan Kang and Shaojun Liu
  Minerals 2021, 11(10), 1132; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11101132
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/10/1132

• “Lithium Potential Mapping Using Artificial Neural Networks: A Case Study from Central Portugal”
  by Martin Köhler, Delira Hanelli, Stefan Schaefer, Andreas Barth, Andreas Knobloch, Peggy Hielscher, Joana Cardoso-Fernandes, Alexandre Lima and Ana C. Teodoro
  Minerals 2021, 11(10), 1046; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11101046
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/10/1046

• “ECORE: A New Fast Automated Quantitative Mineral and Elemental Core Scanner”
  by Marie-Chloé Michaud Paradis, François R. Doucet, Kheireddine Rifai, Lütfü Ç. Özcan, Nawfel Azami and François Vidal
  Minerals 2021, 11(8), 859; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11080859
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/8/859

• “A Geological-Geophysical Prospecting Model for Deep-Seated Gold Deposits in the Jiaodong Peninsula, China”
  by Mingchun Song, Guoqiang Xue, Hongbo Liu, Yixin Li, Chunyan He, Hongjun Wang, Bin Wang, Yingxin Song and Shiyong Li
  Minerals 2021, 11(12), 1393; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11121393
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/12/1393

• “X-ray Fluorescence and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Analysis of Li-Rich Minerals in Veins from Argemela Tin Mine, Central Portugal”
  by Ricardo Ribeiro, Diana Capela, Miguel Ferreira, Rui Martins, Pedro Jorge, Diana Guimarães and Alexandre Lima
  Minerals 2021, 11(11), 1169; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11111169
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/11/1169

• “Detection of Rare Earth Elements in Minerals and Soils by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Using Interval PLS”
  by Nina Rethfeldt, Pia Brinkmann, Daniel Riebe, Toralf Beitz, Nicole Köllner, Uwe Altenberger and Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben
  Minerals 2021, 11(12), 1379; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11121379
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/12/1379

• “Multisource Seismic Full Waveform Inversion of Metal Ore Bodies”
  by Fengjiao Zhang, Pan Zhang, Zhuo Xu, Xiangbo Gong and Liguo Han
  Minerals 2022, 12(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/min12010004
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/1/4

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the research groups that submitted to Minerals (ISSN: 2075-163X). We would appreciate it if you would circulate this document among your colleagues and network. Furthermore, the following opportunities for collaboration may be of interest:

Submitting a manuscript:
This Section is currently open for submissions. Papers may be submitted via the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=minerals.

Launching a Special Issue:
You have the opportunity to propose hot topics and edit a Special Issue together with experts in the field: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/minerals.

Joining the Editorial Board:
If you are an active researcher in the field of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy and are interested in joining the Editorial Board, please do not hesitate to get in touch ([email protected]).

Minerals Editorial Office