WORLD COPPER AND USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000700010028-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2002
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 24, 1956
• Content Type: BRIEF

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ith gold and silver the distinction
metals longest known to man,
economy, its ductility makes it useful
-in. such applications s aas pots and pane, tub
t ion bands on
my shells
and cnicati+ne industries.
world production fr
hat by 1929,
absolutely
rid for copper in
,pie of copper's uses, the following percentage
breakdown of l consumption in a typica.
R1ecctrica
Building trades
d power I
'A
one year, before world War Is to double
3 million tons a year today.
,udin
telegraph:
Ass ition (civilian) : 7
orid copper productio
retric components
I of
NE.:T , ., .n U
DATE.
shows:
4%
ompi sated
the fact that the metal is virtually indestructible-
any year the overall copper supply includes not
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copper mined but also old copper reclaimed. The f
present here, however, are for the output of sloe
ppor
amount of re-processed scrap
ba
ors vrhi.eh ar
rrr refiners-- that in to say, largely now
ncludin
L? great bulk
Id copper producers rank an follow
or 1.2 million tons
235,000 tons in
Rd)
(7,
seed every year by "secondary" users
000 tons in
400,000 tons in
240, 000 tons in
or 175
492,000 tons
r'epion+
Soviet Bloc,
or 63,000 tons in
reclaimed copper
0 tons mined).
)0 for
4, 000 tons mined
875, 000 tons mined)
aniy 8, 000 tons mined,
4000 tons mined
(458,000 tons
0 toni
mined
e, produces almost
+e world''s output of refineddd copper, while two
presently account for the lion
of Soviet production,
with about
empbas
pi f th " 5-Tear
production, by 90% but actually achieved
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y deficien.
just concluded, the USSR had
next
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to nor se t55 output by another
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t eft the soviets to a0hievi
and smaller finds have dust about
today stand at about 20 million
25 :million)
Soviet copper reserves
Uetieu
der these
lap
the Free World (Which totalled
some loot 000
the previous
production are the
the technical barriers
from Such ores.
bout 1% dapper
e5 other Courses are a;
runic Cappe
Of -ew Production possibly in China, whar.
order to solve
Cuveries have been claimed in both the $ou
hi
and,
no new large reserves have been dig
ally,
-for copper.
titu
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the new Chinese rose
`y precede the actual availability of Chinese
d substantial capital investment ei
the Free World probably offer
oxing the
Actually
in significant quantities.
saes of
14 Cal
e, procurement of
id forms of copper on the world market have
e interest of long-range4B2
d possible course-- subetit
jor place in Bloc thinking,
The y
less and
by
0 self-sufficiency,
t ion, which way now
ants for subs,
to not only limited in quantity
stiefactory in quality as
deposits are warked-outa, Any expansion
therefore, is not only difficult but
y d
any
, bauxite of good quality is abundant and
ributed. Increases in the output of
Uerefere, are made both easily and withou
amt increase in costs,
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typos
ady made aluminum in economically at
re already substituted alamin
auto 01*ctri
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on of ready availability and stable price
Id.
)bile industry,
e, in significant percent
>:1d also be possible,
ration
trio bus-bars, ceaduitt many
tub
pt ions, cartridge all
utensils. The overall saving in
such a subs,
2.
appli
in,
d
any
-rtant lee
ituted for copper,
5, lastei rs
tinge, radiator
and appliance
possible copper
valves and ft
el
saving of another 20%
aii
t a:
ar P
:ant to note that
action by over 10
5,000 tons to a
an program could be as
the
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iathle to say with any certainty that the R
ten are n about to launch a maj,
tiaa< SoweVer, there in no quo
Production
.n the air
w d missile
Leant subati
planners, so
alum:
should
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