Fundamentals and Frontiers in Mineralogy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We plan to publish a Special Issue of Minerals in order to present a broad overview of research in mineralogy. Authors will be the Editorial Board members, or those invited by the editorial office and the Editor-in-Chief. Both original research articles and comprehensive review papers are welcome, especially those that illustrate research frontiers. The papers would be published, free of charge, in Open Access after peer-review. The goal is to promote interest in the journal, particuarly to a wider readership, and encourage high-quality submissions in both traditional and non-traditional applications of research in mineralogy.
Prof. Dr. Paul Sylvester
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- mineralogy and mineral resources
- advances in mineral analytical techniques
- new minerals and mineral data
- gems and gem deposits
- biomineralogy
- industrial minerals
- exploration and mining geology
- mining, technology and mineral engineering
- mineral metallurgy
- mineral provenance, diagenesis and petroleum geology
- minerals as paleoclimate archives
- petrogenesis of igneous and metamorphic minerals
- mineral isotope geochemistry, geochronology, thermochronology
- environmental mineralogy and health
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Published Papers
Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X