MAARODU PHOSPHORITE MINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040501-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 501
• Publication Date: September 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
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COUNTRY Extonia (ITSfiR)
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
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DATE DISTR. ,~(~ set '19a$
N0. OF PAGES 4
No. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TD
REPORT No:
LOCATIQC CF G!AFiEiDU MINE
4. Meardu is located 15 kilometers east oS Tctllin on the main highway bets+een
Tallies and N.~.-va Wand also on to Leningrad). `i'he mine is on the left aide
of the highway toxard the Fiaaish Gulf, which is, iacideatally, txo kila~meters
north of thr'mine.
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5s) The Phosphorite Coa+pany directors had been piannitig to ree is
n~lge miniag.,
after the Ulgaste fire. some ci~nsideration vas given to opening 50X1-HUM
LZISTRI9~T~ON
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SE,C1tiT~SECURITY INFORMATION~iT5 OFE'YCIALS 011'I.X
12. Und.cr German authority production was stepped up to 300 tons`pes? 24-hour period. All
of this raw material was sent to Cennany for processingz.
L...Y.TAr1CTI0N
13? The 2~fsazdu phosphorite area was located on a hillside about 30 maters above the
water level. Extraction was mnde by digging down to a depth of about 15 meter:
and then ruinni.ng slopes into the hillside. Conveyor belts carried the pho^phoritc 50X1-HUM
bearirk3 earth to small "donkey"-type cars which were drawn by :mall engin?~:: to th::
:tat?cane. The height of the slopes varied Pros! 90 eantimeters to two an:: one h^?f
.u=t.~;? :imb~rs were o shorn up the limestoua and earth in the clr,~.:fi.
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? ~i machinery end equipment woo modern :+t~d new in 1938. It ces well maintained
even uadez? the Germans. 0 i` ly~c~+ it ryas iri excellent condition, It hcai 50X1 -HUM
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._n r~:eu maintained.
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