“…A LIBS spectrum of a certain mineral can be considered as a fingerprint within a dataset: A unique composition of emission lines with characteristic line intensity values. This enables the use of chemometric data analysis for the characterization of the LIBS spectra and an extensive review is presented elsewhere (29). In the case of mineral and rock samples several LIBS studies are published with varying techniques, e.g., principal component analysis (PCA) (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35), partial least squares (PLS) (36), partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) (30,34,(37)(38)(39), hybrid sparse partial least squares (SPLS) and leastsquares support vector machine (LS-SVM) model ( 40), K-means clustering (41,42), soft independent modelling of class analogy (SIMCA) (35,41), support vector machines (SVM) (39,43), singular value decomposition (SVD) (44), convolutional neural network with twodimensional input (2D CNN) (45), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) (46), and random forest (RF) (47).…”