FLUORSPAR MINING ACTIVITY - CHIMBARGATINSK, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300010007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 8, 1958
• Content Type: BRIEF

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INSTALLATION:
Fluorspar Mining Activity
BRIEF NO.: B-32-58
LOCATION :
Chimbargatinsk, USSR
DATE : 8 September 1958
B. E. NUMBER:
None
LAT . : 41 ? 38' N
WAC NUMBER:
328
LONG. : 69? 55' E
MAP DATA:
AMS, Series N502, Sheet NK 42-8, Nov 1957, 1:250, 000 ( J).
REQUIREMENT RR/HTA/E/R21/58: Locate and describe fluorspar mining
activity which reportedly exists at Chimbargatinsk, in the basin of the
Ugam River, approximately 65 kilometers northeast of Tashkent, USSR.
A ":: oto% aph c .`a: a "C was mad. Gf i kt s _'a n for 10 kilometers
on each side of the Ugam River between its junction with the Chirchik River
at Khodzhikent and a point 25 kilometers upstream. There is no evidence of
ore processing or significant mining activity at Chimbargatinsk or else-
where in the area scanned. The only apparent mining activity is a small
strip mine located three kilometers west of Khumsan, a small town near the
mouth of the Ugam River.
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