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Natural Resources Research Publications on Geochemical Anomaly and Mineral Potential Mapping, and Introduction to the Special Issue of Papers in These Fields

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In its 26 years of existence, the journal of Natural Resources Research (NRR) has published and continues to publish papers on geochemical anomaly and mineral potential mapping. This is consistent with its aims and scope to publish quantitative studies of natural (mainly but not limited to mineral) resources exploration, evaluation and exploitation, including environmental and risk-related aspects. Over the years, NRR has contributed significantly more to the publication of developments in mineral potential mapping and notably less to the publication of developments in geochemical anomaly mapping. In more detail, NRR has contributed significantly more to the publication of research on development of robust quantitative methods for analysis and synthesis of spatial evidence of mineral potential but notably less to the publication of research on development of geologically focused models of mineral potential. The editorship of NRR recognizes the latter as a challenge to promote further research on development of numerically robust as well as geologically focused mineral potential models, and this special issue is a major initiative in response to that challenge. The recent inclusion of Natural Resources Research for coverage by the Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information) in the Science Citation Index Expanded™ and Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) Science Edition will help make Natural Resources Research meet that challenge.

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I thank my co-editor, Renguang Zuo, for his excellent handling of some of the papers submitted for consideration in this special issue. We thank all the authors for their contributions even those who have withdrawn their submissions as well as those whose papers have been rejected by the reviewers. Therefore, we are both grateful to the following individuals for their voluntary time and gracious effort to review the quality of the papers considered in this special issue: Maysam Abedi, Hooshang Asadi, Pouran Behnia, Antonella Buccianti, Matthew Cracknell, David Cohen, Brent Elliott, Mark Gettings, Mario Gonçalves, Eric Grunsky, Jeff Harris, Charlie Kirkwood, Oliver Kreuzer, Yue Liu, Ahmad Mokhtari, Charles Moon, Vesa Nykänen, Greg Partington, Martiya Sadeghi, Andrew Skabar, Qingfei Wang, Wenlei Wang and Mahyar Yousefi.

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Carranza, E.J.M. Natural Resources Research Publications on Geochemical Anomaly and Mineral Potential Mapping, and Introduction to the Special Issue of Papers in These Fields. Nat Resour Res 26, 379–410 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-017-9348-1

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