Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
In the granites of the Badinski body there have been established high-temperature
pirite-molybdenum ore with superimposed medium-temperature hydrothermal
activity in the final magmatic stage.
Paragenetically with the Late Cretaceous magmatic activity there have appeared a
range of contact-metasomatic ore deposits. In some of them (e.g. the area adjoining
Malyovitsa) the ore formation is specularite-magnetite with a superimposed
hydrothermal mineralization. Along the valley of the Drushlyavitsa River, there have
been identified garner-hedenbergite skarns with ferrite mineralization (magnetite),
pyrotite, halcopyrite, malachite and azurite.
Hydrothermal activity with relatively poor polymetallic mineralization has been
observed at several sub-parallel zones southwest of Golyam Mechi Peak. To zones of
the same orientation has been attributed the copper mineralization identified at Rila
Monastery, Brichebor locality, and Radovichka River.
Of the non-metallic mineral deposits, of scientific interests are pegmatite veins and
bodies, genetically related to granitoids (at Ribni Lakes, Pastra); however, these are of
no commercial interest to the ceramic industry. The minerals and their varieties found
in Rila Monastery Nature Park are listed in Appendix 9.
2.2.3 Geomorphological description and morphometric parameters
The territory of Rila Monastery Nature Park comprises portions of Northwestern,
Southwestern and Central Rila. The valley of the River Rila, from Kirilova Polyana to
Ribni Lakes, divides the area into two main orographic ridges: the Skakavitza Ridge
and the Rilets Ridge, linked together at the principal orographic junction, Kanarata
Peak (2,691m asl) (A three-dimensional model of RMNP is shown in Fig. 4.). The
Skakavitsa Ridge branches into four limbs, or spurs: northern (outside the Park
perimeter); northwestern, with highest peak Pogledets (2,691m asl); western, with
Vodniya Chal (2,683 m); and southern, comprising three peaks: Shishkovitsa (2,669
m), Venetsa (2,600 m) and Yossifitsa (2,696 m). All four spurs are connected to the
main orographic junction of the Skakavitsa Ridge, Vazela Peak (2,581 m), while its
southern spur provides, next to Yossifitsa Peak, the main orographic link with
Kanarata Peak. The Rilets Ridge extends between the valleys of the Rilska and Iliyna
Rivers. A massive ridge with short transverse ridges, it starts from Rila Monastery
and the nearby Brichebor locality. From west to east, it is dotted by the following
peaks: Brichebor (2,104 m), Padarska Chuka (2,574 m), Baba (2,609 m),
Theodossievi Karauli (2,671 m), Rilets (2,713 m), Mermera (2,602 m), and Pavlev
Vruch (2,667 m). To the south of Kanarata Peak are the following peaks: Cherna
Polyana (2,716 m), Aladja Slap (2,683 m), Angelov Peak (2,643 m), Golyam Mechi
Peak (2,617 m), Markov Kamak (2,342 m), etc.
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan -Draft
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