If you want to know more about the attributes of minerals to science, technology, and society and how the criticalty of mineralogical knowledge is demonstrated by connecting the mineral sciences across scientific disciplines and into the realm of humankind by providing select examples in science, technology, and society you should check the new paper Minerals Matter: Science, Technology, and Society by Barbara L. Dutrow, from the Deptarment of Geology & Geophysics of the Louisiana State University, has been published on the Geological Society of America TODAY.