Novinite, Bulgaria
Sept 29 2004

Diamonds Mined in The Rhodopes

Politics: 29 September 2004, Wednesday.

A Bulgarian professor announced Wednesday that diamonds have been
unearthed for the first time in Bulgaria.

The discovery was made by Doctor Harizan Harizanov, a lecturer at
the New Bulgarian University.

The possibility for diamond deposits nestling in Bulgaria has been
suggested before, but Harizanov is the first one to make an actual
discovery.

He told the Bulgarian News Agency that the precious stones were
discovered in the area around Kardzali, a town in Bulgaria’s far south.

The news about the rare find was broken during a crystals and minerals
expo in Pleven. More than 300 pieces are on display at the city’s
History Museum, including unique precious stones.

Visitors of the exhibition will have the chance to see an Antarctic
agate, a chunk from the Mt Ararat volcano in Armenia, as well as
mammoth tusk found in the Black Sea near the Bulgaria coast.