Funded by Ministry of Land and Resources of China, China Geological Survey and  National High Technology Research and

Development Program of China (National 863 Program), the Hyperspectral Research Group of China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote

Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS) has made remarkable scientific achievements in hyperspectral mineral identification

and mineral mapping since the implementation of  the ‘Ninth Five-Year Plan’. These  achievements include: (1) the analysis of

features of rock and mineral spectra and  influencing factors, (2) mineral identification, abundance estimation and component

derivation, (3) multispectral and hyperspectral data processing and mineral mapping in mid-thermal infrared spectral region, (4)

geological application model, working methods and technical processes, and  technology systematic architecture of hyperspectral

mineral mapping, and (5) applications of mineral mapping in such fields as regional mineral survey, geological exploration,

metallogenic and prospecting modeling, plant geochemical detection, mining environmental monitoring, and lunar and planetary

exploration. These achievements are reviewed and summarized in this paper, and the development tendency and research orientations

in hyperspectral mineral mapping are also discussed.