In this paper, the explicit expressions for the generating idempotents, check polynomials and the parameters of all minimal cyclic codes of length tpn over Fq are obtained, where p is an odd prime different from the characteristic of Fq, t and n are positive integers with t (q-1), gcd(t,p)=1 and ordtpn(q)=( pn). Our results generalize the main results in Pruthi and Arora (1997) and Arora and Pruthi (1999), which considered the cases t=1 and t=2 respectively. We propose an approach different from those in Pruthi and Arora (1997) and Arora and Pruthi (1999) to obtain ...