Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Mineral Science

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue comprises selected papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Mineral Science (IECMS2021), held from 1–15 March 2021, on sciforum.net, an online platform for hosting scholarly e-conferences and discussion groups.

The conference is organized around the following eight themes:

• Session A: Mineral Processing and Metallurgy;
• Session B: Mineral Deposit Genesis;
• Session C: Environmental Mineralogy and Biomineralization;
• Session D: Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology;
• Session E: Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals;
• Session F: Mineral Exploration Methods;
• Session G: Clays, Nanominerals and Engineered Nanomaterials;
• Session H: Analysis and Visualization of Large Datasets in Mineralogy.

For more information on IECMS2021, please go to https://sciforum.net/conference/iecms2021.

Prof. Dr. Paul Sylvester
Guest Editor

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