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: |
| 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. 4) Minerals was covered in the Category "Geochemistry & Geophysics". |
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–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 |
| 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 |
