Sponsored jointly by Commission on Mineral Deposits, GSC, and Institute of Mineral Resources, CAGS, Mineral Deposits is an academic journal issued quarterly and distributed both in China and abroad since 1982. Besides dealing with basic theories of mineral deposit geology and geology of metallic and nonmetallic mineral deposits,  it covers a wide range of relevant interesting fields such as new techniques, new methods and research and experimental achievements made by various mineral deposits-related disciplines like petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, mineral exploration, environmental geology and cosmic geology. It ranks among Chinese core journals and source journals for Chinese scientific and technical papers and citations. Its printing edition, CD edition and web edition are being published by Science Press, CNKI, CSCD and CSTPCD, respectively. Its abstracts have been continuously included in American Chemical Abstracts, CSA Technology Research Database, Russian (РЖ) Digests. According to impact factors of various scientific and technical journals of China, Mineral Deposits occupied first place among scientific and technical journals from 1999 to 2014. Mineral Deposits has merged theory, knowledge, break-new-ground spirit, practical applicability and timely information into an organic whole whether in its contents and in its layout. With its rigorous scientific approach and abundant information, the journal will spare no efforts to serve the readers better and better.