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The Bulgarian National Representation in the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association (CBGA), in cooperation with the Bulgarian Geological Society (BGS), is offering financial support to students, full-time doctoral candidates, retirees, invited speakers, and session chairs to participate in the 23rd CBGA Congress, which will take place from September 9 to 11 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The support c ...

On April 27, 2026, in the Assarel deposit (town of Panagyurishte, Assarel Site), a meeting was held between participants of the REXPro project team (contract BG-RRP-2.011-0040-C01/C02), representing work packages WP1, 2, 3 and 5 and experts from the Critical Raw Materials Working Group of Assarel-Medet JSC. At the meeting, the coordinator of the REXPro project, Prof. Dr. I. Peycheva, presented the ...

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Room 203 of the Institute of Geology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, an academic lecture will be given on the topic: "Metasomatism at the pegmatite/marble contact: skarn mineralizations from the metamorphic units in SW Bulgaria" Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Rositsa Vasileva Everyone is welcome!

The waterlogging of the terrain caused by the rains in recent weeks is the most likely reason for the landslide that swallowed up 300 meters of the Smolyan-Pamporovo road on Friday afternoon. Link to the article

What is the situation with the landslide near Smolyan? On the “Good Morning, Europe” program, Prof. Nikolay Dobrev, head of the “Geological Hazards and Risks” section at the Geological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, comments on the situation: https://euronews.bg/programs/svlachishteto-krai-smolyan-mogat-li-podobni-bedstviya-da-se-prognozirat/