RADIOACTIVE MINERALS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200244-0
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 244
• Publication Date: August 17, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUBJECT Radlcactive ldinrrals
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCFI
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SQURGE $acumentary as indicated. (Iaformatiora epecifieal]~ requested.)
DFPGSITS i')F RADIOACTP~' MTNFRALS IN TSF USSR
~he folloT+in(; are traz~olel:e2 excerpts Exam twp captured fi]es
oY Cernnn docvnents, CM719, AGO Aoa No K?/ID 2.1258P and 4:f/ID
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A. Doc IOo Ki/IU 2.7.2588
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SubJect: Radium and
Reference: POne
1Tranlum DepoE,lte
21 September 1942
Fcon~ic'StaYf Ftiat
B.Nr. 6881/0 / 42!
According to the data u4 the Geological. e(genu in B'raamodtas',.Sir-
blchnaya L2, radium and uranium deposits are i0und on the HPlaya RivEr
near the z0wn of Dakhovekaye ~AAF Chart 249; p07.itical. l0aation, ICraenoder
Brat7.
The chem3caT 8natyaie ie sn f0i~oxe: uranium oxide, 9:~+ percent; vans-
diam oxide, Q.EG percen:?; boron au?"aYe, 5.8w percent.
Rxke with median radioacticitg and 1.7 x 10'21 grams of radium per
gran of rxk are Yound ~ the Inba Rivar Charts 249, 324; political
location, Eraea00ar SraY and Georgian SSR~
kxka vitb medive.radioact~vity and ?.8 x 10-~ grmes oY radii per
gran of rxk are found on the Belays Rivex ~ Charts 249, 32L~-
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Rake with medium radioactivity and 6.1 x 10"~' grema of radium per
gram of rook are iouad on the Mzymta River eAAAF Chan 324; political loca-
tffion,Eraanodnr Eray,? Mxymta River empties into the Black Soa at Adler].
Further praapecting is neceeeax?y before the value of exploitation can
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Captain and Comvanding Officer
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1. Tfpewritten doauatent entitled "Notes Concerning a Trip to the USSR
in Connection Nith the Oeologlcal Congress in Moaaow, July-A?aguet 1937, by
G. Aetler, Aamalee des Mines, 13. aerie, ed. XVI, Marie 1939":
Rad9 Ores. To the old deposits of Ruyn-Monin are to be added: Taboshar,
Tagakhe e,ati9ai 3u. ~abaal~ar, AAF Ohart 328; Maily Su probably Melly
sei, AAF chest 3a8~
2. 'Pypewrittea list of repar~e aaailable at 8aonamla Staff Faat, Berlin,
10 y'ebruary 1943: ".?2,~D/ZII - ~iadium and tiraaium, Malybdenitm, Niokal Sulfide
and Ifickel Areeaio IIepaaite in the Caucsauti"
3. Mimeographed paper by O.A. ltusnetaov, entitled "High-Grade 8tee1 sad
Rau Material Baees fcr Its Production is the Soviet tlaion":
2lrcon ie uauBlly found ir. sands which ales conttsi:~ tLorivm. There aro
few warthwhile zircon depaeite in the A83tt. Eudf:,xite and eukolite, which
aorta+n avail emouate of zirooa, are found on the Eo1n Peainaula, in the
Ehibinekaya Tundra, on the Earelfan Penlnauls, and !n the Lovorerekaya Tundra.
Z,irooa and spaxedia enpearanoee of tharium ere alas found in geld-bearing at~ndc.
8ltOh 4a~yoaSts of sisnot! sad +kori~ oaaur in the 1lizhaynya 9alda (Sverdlovsk
Obleat) gold sands, sad are the largest in the IIrale. Hands ~f a eimi:ar nature
hate been Yaund in the Miaea region and nieo is Ccatral and Eastern Siberia."
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