Greetings everyone!!!

My name is  Radoslav M Radev /Rad/. Me and my good friend Nedzhmi Hutev /Ned/are the founders of the SupercoolgemS

We are both very passionate about the unique and rare minerals

Also we are super lucky to have some of the best mineral specimens from Bulgaria.

Most of our magnificent and unique minerals are straight from Bulgarian mines and most of them are from the town that we were born Madan, Bulgaria.

Bulgaria holds a leading position in European mining. The country ranks third in copper, fourth in gold, fifth in lignite mining. The main raw materials produced in Bulgaria are lignite, lead-zinc, copper and polymetallic ores, gypsum, limestone, bentonite, kaolin, quartz sands, refractory clays, marble.

Madan is an ancient ore-miners' settlement, the extraction of lead ore having begun around 5th-4th century BC.

The name of Madan which locals call ‘Village’, is relatively modern and related to ore mining. Madan is from an Arabic word – Madden, meaning mine. There is also evidence that Madan was of consequence in antiquity, bearing in mind its geographic location and the traces of old ore-mining in the town and surrounding area.

In 1984, Madan saw the opening of “Rhodope Crystal”, which is a museum collection of crystalline mineral samples extracted from the mines of the region over an extended period.

The museum exhibits amount to approximately 600 items, and the museum itself is a member of the International Association of Mineralogical Museums. Many of the crystalline forms of Galena and Sphalerite are unique.

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