Abstract
On the occation of the 10th anniversary of the Photon Factory, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Japan, a review of work done in the field of mineralogy has been made. This paper includes a complete list of the publications in the field of the mineralogical applications of synchrotron radiation in Japan, covering the development of instrumentations and mineralogical applications of X-ray diffraction, XAFS, X-ray fluorescence analysis, X-ray topography and computerized tomography.
