SEARCH FOR DRILLING SITES WITHIN 25 NM OF CH'INGLIU, CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000500090077-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: June 8, 1965
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2003/12/09 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000500090077-7
Approved For Release 2003/12/09 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000500090077-7
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SUTECT Search for DrillirU Sites within 25 nnl.
of Ch'ingliu, China
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1. This memorandum is in response to your requirement which
reeues- 25 nm search around Ch'ingliu, Fuchien Province, China,
for te_ drilling sites over potential mineral deposits with special
referer_ _ to prospecting for uraniferous ores. The search utilized
good ct.: _.ty photography, contemporaneous to the reported time of
the ari_ _ing.
2. Three areas of prospecting were observed in the general
vicinity,- of Lofeng (eh'!) as follows: (1) On the north flank of a
U-shape: ridge are a number of faint traces of possible trenches at
26-O5N/_.17-l5E. Three possible drilling sites are located on the
opposite flank (oriented East-West). A faint trail leads up an unnamed
mountai:_ stream from the hamlet of Ch'i-yuE;n. (2) Trail served trenches
are vis-.,le east of the hamlet of Tung-men at 26-O5N/l1T--O3E, on the
east of the valley of an unnamed stream. Four or five possible
circular shallow drilling sites-are visible. (3) Two small areas of
scarrin;: and possible trenching are visible west of T'eng-tiao-lung
hamlet a 26-05i`/117-OOE.
A remotely situated small housing area, served by a new road
leading Through an easily policed defile, to a series of parallel
.trenches is observed at 26-21N/116-53E, 5 rim NNW of Sung-ch'i-yu. one
geological and geographical setting is favorable but more information
is needed to confirm the presence or exploitation there of uraniferous
ores.
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::o visible activity is seen in or about a series of parallel
trench .-t 26--231i/116-23E, 2. 5 rim SW of the hamlet of Lung-t' ou-ts' un,
rear .est of a mountain ridge. A small quarry and. associated
proces. plant are located at 20-111?/110-35 , 3 nm SW of Ning-hua,
probab'. building material for that city.
'... The location of the 306 Geology Unit office in or near the city
^h'-` -liu, cannot be identified positively at this time from
I hotography.
5. References used in this search are as follows:
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Series L 783, :.ap Sheets 6333 I, 8333 11, 81+33 III, 81+33 IV,
scales 1:50,000 1960 (U::CLr.SS ~, IED) ..
A.2. Series L 500,E ap Sheets, ICG 50-6, Jan 1959; NG 50-7, April 1959;
I:G 50-10, April 1959; NG 50-11, Nov 1958, scales
1: 250, 000 (U:'.cLASSIi IED )
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S and Z?'A=:G, 11. C., Geology of Chi:_gliu, Ninghua, Liengcheng
and Chang in g, Fukien: Geol & Soil Surv. Fukien, Geol. Rept
::o. 2: 1+2 p., ill., Yungar., Fukien, Dec 1941. In Chinese
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