Murgana Geological Consulting - MGC

14/03/2025

🎓 On March 13, 2025, our colleague Kristian Elenkov successfully defended his master’s thesis at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in the Applied Economic Geology program. His thesis, titled “Characterization of Potential Industrial Neogene Clays in Northwestern Bulgaria,” was supervised by Prof. Tsveta Stanimirova and Assist. Prof. Zornitsa Doceva.

🌍 Kristian has been an integral part of our team at Murgana Geological Consultancy, where his expertise and dedication contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality geological solutions worldwide. His academic achievement further strengthens his role as a valuable professional in the field of economic geology.

👏 Congratulations, Kristian! We are proud of your achievement and look forward to your future successes as part of our growing geological consultancy team. 🎉

11/10/2021

Murgana Geological Consulting Ltd. (MGC) представя ежегодната награда за млад учен „Професор Живко Иванов“.

Каним всички млади участници на годишната конференция на
Българското геологическо дружество да се включат в конкурса.

Желание за участие можете да заявите с писмо до доц. д-р Никола Ботушаров – председател на БГД на адрес [email protected], с копие до MGC на [email protected]

Повече информация за условията на конкурса можете да намерите на страницата на Българското геологическо дружество: https://bgd.bg/frames_home_BG.html

15/03/2021

Congratulations to our consulting geologist Aleksandar for successfully defending an excellent MSc thesis at Sofia University. Well done Sando, we are proud to have you in our team.

16/02/2021

World’s top 10 copper projects:

These 10 development projects will play a major role in setting the copper price for the next decade.

27/01/2021

A must read!
The revenge of the miners.

As the world electrifies, the mining industry will strike gold, legendary financier Robert Friedland predicts

27/10/2020

28/09/2020

Murgana Geological Consulting Ltd (MGC) кани всички млади участници в Годишната научна
конференция с международно участие „Геонауки 2020“ да се включат в конкурса за наградата
„Професор Живко Иванов“. Право на участие имат всички първи автори на научни съобщения
(самостоятелни или в съавторство), изнесли лично доклад на конференцията. Участниците в
конкурса трябва да бъдат на възраст до 33 години (включително). Заявка за участие и PDF на
научното съобщение се изпращат до доц. д-р Никола Ботушаров – председател на БГД на адрес
[email protected], с копие до MGC на [email protected]. Победителят в конкурса, ще бъде
избран от жури, а наградата ще бъде връчена при закриването на Годишната конференция на БГД.

08/09/2020

Interesting read. New list of "critical" materials is released. Among other points in the document one important is the 0% of waste reprocessing for some materials (Li included) on one hand and on the other the outlines of the strategy for "Sourcing from the European Union" which begins as follows: As global demand for critical raw material grows, primary raw materials will continue to play a key role. Mobilising Europe’s domestic potential better is an essential part of the EU becoming more resilient and developing open strategic autonomy.
Europe has a long tradition of mining and extractive activities. It is well-endowed with aggregates and industrial minerals as well as certain base metals such as copper and zinc. It is less successful in developing projects to source critical raw materials, even though there is significant potential for these. See Figure 3. The reasons are multi-faceted: lack of investment in exploration and mining, diverse and lengthy national permitting procedures or low levels of public acceptance.
full text in all languages is available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52020DC0474

08/07/2020

We are very happy to share that our consulting geologist Tsvety has successfully defended her PhD thesis in structural geology. Perhaps one of the very few positive things of the social distancing is the opportunity to concentrate and upgrade your qualification. We are proud with what Tsvety did, knowing how complicated the terrane was and how much field and laboratory data had to be interpreted for the completion of this work. We are looking forward to new exciting projects with lots of field exploration, lots of structural analysis, lots of crazy geochemistry.

01/04/2020

One of the biggest geosciences forums is changing and adapting to the Quarantine situation in Austria. The event will not be cancelled. EGU 2020 will be online in a new format. It also has got a new name: "EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online ( )". It will take place from 4 - 8 May 2020, it is open to anyone interested, and is free of charge. For more information check the link bellow:

https://egu2020.eu/sharing_geoscience_online/sharing_geoscience_online.html

01/03/2020

Мургана Ви желае здраве!

10/02/2020

The green revolution was triggered some 20 years ago or even more by the perspective of getting to the point where nonrenewable fossil fuel production will not meet the monstrous demand. Now we know that this post apocalyptic scenario, where a jar of petrol will be like the manna from heaven, is not even close to the truth. Nevertheless, we are going green just with a different reasoning like global warming and pollution. This is fine and logical but now the question is are we not in a similar situation where, like the fossil fuels, the global production of the so-called critical raw materials will not be enough to satisfy the hunger of the green industry. In addition, the “green gap” between demand and supply is growing a lot faster and bigger than what was predicted for the petrol back in the 90s. Staying in the field of the horrible figures of less than 10 % recycling of these materials (and for some metals it is even less than 1 %) makes the risk of a huge crisis much higher. So, the point is we shouldn’t be in such a hurry to go green in order not to get very brown.

A new pro-mining investment policy, more free trade deals, and an incoming "geopolitical" European Commission signals the EU will stake more claim on critical raw materials.