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Iliya Dimitrov

(MSc, geologist)
phone: (+359 2) 987 41 94; (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 621); e-mail:

Born: 2 July 1972, Chepelare.
Education: Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (1997).
Speciality: mineralogy.

Research interests


Research of mineralogical composition and thermodynamic conditions for formation of Alps type mineralisation. History and cataloguing of the mineralogical collection.

Current projects


Enriching and investigation of funds and constructing and reconstructing of the expositions of natural subjects in National Museum of Natural History
Composition, distribution and characterisation of pegmatite minerals, skarns and hydrothermal deposits in Bulgaria

Selected publications


Karov Ch., I. Dimitrov. 2002. A catalogue of the mineral species in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. (Part 1). Native Elements, Sulphides and Sulphosalts, Oxides and Hydroxides, Halogenides. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 15: 5—29.

Karov Ch., I. Dimitrov. 2004. A catalogue of the mineral species in National Museum of Natural History (Sofia) — (part 2) — (Silicates). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 16: 7—45.