Chavdar Karov

(Assistant, MSc)

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

Born: 11 February 1963, Shumen.
Education: University of Mining and Geology (1988).
Speciality: mineralogy.

Palaeontology and Mineralogy Department

Research interests

Special sciences interests closely connected with investigate of mineralogical and geochemical characterisation of pegmatite and aplit-pegmatite vain especially in non-granit-Ca-alcal plutons as well skarn and hydrotermal minerals. History of mineral collections.

Current projects

Enrich and investigation of funds and constructing and reconstructing of exposition from subject on nature in National Museum of Natural History

Composition, distribution and characteristic of pegmatite minerals, skarn and hydrotermal deposits in Bulgaria

Mineralogy of pegmatite from Vitosha pluton - dissertation work in project of development

Selected publications

Petrussenko S., Ch. Karov. 1993. Tennantite from the pegmatites of Vitosha. — Comptes rendus de l’ABS, 46 (1): 79—80.

Karov Ch. 1995. Bulgarian mineral collections and specimens in the fund of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of sciences. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 6: 3—9.

Karov Ch., S. Petrussenko. 1996. Prenite of two pegmatite localities from Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 7: 97—103.

Karov Ch. 2000. Mineral composition of pegmatite types in Vitosha pluton. First International Symposium, Mineral diversity — research and preservation. Earth and Man National Museum. Sofia: 15.

Karov Ch., S. Petrussenko. 2002. Published authors’ specimens from the funds of the National Museum of Natural History — Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Second International Symposium, Mineral diversity — research and preservation. Abstracts. Earth and Man National Museum. Sofia. 2. 10.

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.

Petrussenko S., Ch. Karov 2003. The Vitosha minerals. — Minno Delo i Geologia Journal, 8: 23—27.

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.