Journal History

2011 The inaugural issue was released. Minerals was published as a quarterly journal.
2014 Minerals was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).
2015 Minerals received its first Impact Factor (1.000) and Minerals was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).
2016 Minerals announced the first edition of the Travel Awards.
2017 Minerals adopted a monthly publication schedule.
2018 1) Minerals published its 1,000th paper.
2) Minerals established the following sections:
2019 1) Minerals announced the first edition of the Best Paper Awards.
2) Minerals started the Topics Board and Reviewer Board projects.
2020 1) Minerals announced the first edition of Young Investigator Award.
2) Minerals announced the first edition of the Travel Awards in Mineral Processing and Metallurgys.
2021 1) Minerals has established the following sections:

2) Mineral Processing and Metallurgy has been renamed as Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy.
3) Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals has been renamed as Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals.

4) Minerals was covered in the Category "Geochemistry & Geophysics".
5) Minerals announced the first edition of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

Editor-in-Chief

2010–2013 Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Robert Larry Grayson
2013–2016 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen E. Haggerty
2016–2023 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paul Sylvester
2023–present Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky

Section Editor-in-Chief

2018–2019 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Raymond M. Coveney, Jr. for the section on Mineral Deposits
2018–2020 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Karen Hudson-Edwards for the section on Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry
2018–2022 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kota Hanumantha Rao for the section on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
2018–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nigel J. Cook for the section on Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Huifang Xu for the section on Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals
2019–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Theodore J. Bornhorst for the section on Mineral Deposits
2020–2024 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Anna H. Kaksonen for the section on Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry
2021–present Associate Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zhiyong Gao for the section on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrey G. Kalinichev for the section on Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Yannicke Dauphin for the section on Biomineralization and Biominerals
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael S. Zhdanov for the section on Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications
2022–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. William Skinner for the section on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
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