Editorial Board
42 Editors in 16 Countries/Regions
Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Alejandro Lopez-Valdivieso
alopez@uaslp.mxInstituto de Metalurgia, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Research Interests: colloidal interface chemistry, flotation theory and technology, preparation and application of mineral materials, magnetic separation theory, equipment development.
Editor-in-Chief
Shaoxian Song 
ssx851215@whut.edu.cn School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: mineral flotation, fine particle processing, fineral materials, wastewater treatment, mining solid waste management, colloidal stability.
Associate Editors
Feifei Jia
School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: preparation and application of mineral materials, wastewater treatment, precious metal extraction.
Hyunjung Kim
Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Research Interests: mineral processing and extractive metallurgy, sustainable process development, urban mining, colloid chemistry.
Editorial Board Members
Adrián Durán Benito
Department of Chemistry, University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain.
Research Interests: Cultural heritage, materials science, inorganic chemistry.
Mostafa Benzaazoua
Research Institute on Mines and Environment, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada.
Research Interests: mining, waste management, mineral processing, renewable energy.
Pablo Brito-Parada
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Research Interests: foams, froths, sustainable mineral processing.
Zhao Cao
School of Mining and Coal Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.
Research Interests: Rare earth minerals, noble metal extraction, flotation, interfacial chemistry, mineral materials.
Saeed Chehreh Chelgani
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering,Swedish School of Mines, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.
Research Interests: upgrading critical raw materials and recycling, flotation, mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, AI modeling.
Luzheng Chen
Faculty of Land Resource Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Research Interests: magnetic separation, gravity concentration, mineral processing, fine particles processing.
Luis Alberto Cisternas
Department of Chemical and Mineral Process Engineering, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.
Research Interests: process optimization, process modeling, mineral processing, water treatment, chemical engineering, separation technology, cleaner production, circular mining.
Nimila Dushyantha
Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka.
Research Interests: REEs, REE extraction, mining, mineral processing, geochemistry.
Sebnem Duzgun
Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA.
Research Interests: mine closure and reclamation, quantitative sustainability assessment for mining projects, risk and safety analysis for coal mines, mine environmental monitoring
Andrea R Gerson
Blue Minerals Consultancy, Wattle Grove, Tasmania, Australia.
Research Interests: rock, acid mine drainage, tailings, copper, chalcopyrite, acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans.
Sadia Ilyas
Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Research Interests: critical minerals, rare earths, battery elements, circular economy, industrial waste management, sustainable development goals, bio-remediation, environmental inorganic chemistry.
Ioannis K. Koukouvelas
Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece.
Research Interests: earthquake geology, natural hazards, remote sensing of landslides,
Przemyslaw B. Kowalczuk
Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Research Interests: mineral processing, minerals engineering, flotation, physicochemistry of surfaces, colloids systems, hydrophobicity, minerals, surface properties, extractive metallurgy, leaching.
Manseung Lee
Department of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, Institute of Rare Metal, Mokpo National University, Chonnam, South Korea.
Research Interests: hydrometallurgy, catalyst, waste lithium battery recycling, leaching, solvent extraction.
Chunquan Li
School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: mineral materials, mineral processing, powder surface modification, comprehensive resource utilization, advanced oxidation processes, environmental remediation.
Songbo Li
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineerin Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.
Research Interests: materials and mechanism for fuel cell.
Kun Liu
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Research Interests: mineral materials, environmental materials, mineral processing, comprehensive utilization of solid waste.
Wengang Liu
School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
Research Interests: research and development of mineral processing agents and sorting theory, environmental protection in mineral processing.
Fanfei Min
Faculty of Materials science and Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, Anhui, China.
Research Interests: clay mineral, interface, slime, interface regulation, molecular dynamics, mineral materials.
Anh V. Nguyen
School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Research Interests: colloid and interface science of particles, bubbles and drops in surfactant solutions, saline water.
Cesar Nieto-Delgado
División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICyT) , San Luis Potosí, México.
Research Interests: coal and coke, water/solid inteface chemistry, wastewater treatment.
Hong Peng
School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Research Interests: hydrometallurgy, zeolites, bauxite residue, clay minerals, nanobubbles, molecular dynamics simulation.
J.H. Potgieter
School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Manchester, United Kingdom.
Research Interests: extractive metallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrochemistry, corrosion, metals recovery, waste valorisation.
Amin Beiranvand Pour
Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Terengganu, Malaysia.
Research Interests: remote sensing, environment, satellite image processing, geological mapping, minerals, exploration geology, mining, exploration geophysics.
Mildred Quintana
Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Research Interests: molecular recognition, graphene oxide, nanofiltration membranes, graphite.
Feng Rao
Zijin School of Geology and Mining, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China; Instituto de Investigacion en Metalurgia y Materiales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
Research Interests: alkali-activated materials, geopolymer, metallurgical waste, oxide minerals, mineral processing, flotation.
Amila Sandaruwan Ratnayake
Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka.
Research Interests: geology, mineral processing, heavy minerals, mineral resources.
Liuyi Ren
Department of Mineral Processing and Materials, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: complex mineral separation, fine particle flotation, particle-bubble interface interaction, solid waste resource utilization.
Yanbai Shen
School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
Research Interests: mineral material, environmental material, gas sensing material, solid waste utilization, comprehensive utilization of resource, biosorption.
Zhiming Sun
School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: mineral materials, composite catalytic materials, environmental mineral materials, comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, surface modification, inorganic compound.
Zenixole Tshentu
Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
Research Interests: inorganic chemistry, hydrometallurgy, functional mineral materials.
BALARAM VYSETTI
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.
Research Interests: trace element geochemistry, marine geochemistry, mineral exploration, spectroscopy, environmental chemistry.
Lei Xie
School of the Resources Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Research Interests: colloid and interface, intermolecular force, mineral processing, water treatment, adhesion and lubrication.
Yaowen Xing
Chinese National Engineering Research Center of Coal Preparation and Purification, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: coal flotation, colloid chemistry, surface and interface forces, interface chemistry, bubble-particle interaction, flotation hydrodynamics.
Chenyang Zhang
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Research Interests: interface chemistry and surface coordination chemistry, molecular design of mineral processing and metallurgical reagents, theoretical and computational chemistry, mineral functional materials, treatment technology of pollutants reutilization.
Wencai Zhang
Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Research Interests: mineral processing, coal preparation, surface chemistry, hydrometallurgy, critical element recovery.
Hongbo Zhao
School of Minerals Processing & Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Research Interests: Mineral processing and extractive metallurgy, mining and metallurgy environmental engineering
Shuiping Zhong
Zijin School of Geology and Mining, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Research Interests: copper pyrometallurgy, rare metal extraction, recycle of resources.
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