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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), starting with Volume 4 (Issue 1).
2015	Minerals received its first Impact Factor (1.000). Minerals was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 5 (Issue 1).
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: Mineral Processing and Metallurgy Mineral Deposits Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals
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: Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications Biomineralization and Biominerals Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials 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.
2025	Minerals established the following section: Mineralogy Beyond Earth.

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
2018–2024	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nigel J. Cook for the section on Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology
2018–present	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
2021–2025	Associate Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zhiyong Gao for the section on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
2021–present	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
2022–2025	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. William Skinner for the section on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
2024–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Rafael Santos for the section on Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Urs Klötzli for the section on Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology
2025–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zhiyong Gao for the section on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky for the section on Mineralogy Beyond Earth

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