Aims and scope

Discover Minerals is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal that supports multidisciplinary research and policy developments across the field of minerals. The journal aims to be a resource for researchers, policy makers and the general public for recent advances in mineralogy, mineral geochemistry and geochronology, mineral exploration and mineral processing, and its uses in research development and society. As a fully open access journal, we ensure that our research is highly discoverable and instantly available globally to everyone. The journal particularly welcomes work that aims to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially Sustainable Cities and Communities; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Affordable and Clean Energy and Climate Action.

Topics welcomed at Discover Minerals include but are not limited to the following:

• Metallic minerals
• Mineral geochemistry 
• Analytic techniques for minerals
• New minerals
• Crystallography and physical chemistry of minerals
• Nanominerals
• Gems
• Mineral deposits
• Environmental mineralogy and biogeochemistry 
• Biominerals
• Minerals in Industry
• Clays 
• Mineral material sciences
• Mining and exploration (including related technology and engineering)
• Minerals processing
• Extractive metallurgy
• Green extraction/synthesis of minerals
• Mineral applications

Content types

Discover Minerals welcomes a variety of article types – please see our submission guidelines for details. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of mineral-related studies. For more information, please follow up with our journal publishing contact.