ECONOMIC - COAL MINING

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9
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April 8, 1949
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/24: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9 COUNTRY ussR SUBJECT Economic - Coal mining HOW PII8 ISHED BiSonth1F peri'cdical WHERE Y y/Jw 1948 LANGUAGE N ./RN OTA1119>1111115 ".NUKING 0. i5MO11A42 ACT IN ?, a. G: NI u. Gt. u Y.NGNi. I%.TIW..KI.i1OK OR TN. NIITUAATTOA N In COKT9/1T. 1^ uY .uK.N.;TO'1K: 8.u,11021E.8n.sa. 1. TM- 510505K W Vi6. ?NION.CIION OM Till IOes II ..01161120.. SOURCE the end of the First rive-Tear Plan, the output had been doubled. urge-soale of these new mines is the Yolchanskiy field in the Sverdlovsk region, In addi- terranean wining. Open mining constituted 1,9 percent of USSR mining in 1937; CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS REPOR CD NO.. DATE OF INFORMATION 191+8 DATE DIST. g Apr 1949 LT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/24: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/24: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9 At Productivity of labor in open mining is 2.5 to 0 3 times as great as that in shaft mining. Cost of open coal mining is about one third that of shaft mining. In the eastern regions it was 35.7 percent cheaper than shaft mining in 1947. Current cost ofc.,nstruction of open pits, is lower than the cost of shaft construction by the factors indicated: Urals, 2.5; Karaganda, 1.4; Cheremkhovo, 1.5. A number of coal pits with an output of 300,000-600,000 tons annually were constructed during World War II. Construction time for these pits averaged one year. An ordinary shaft with this output requires 2-3, and sometimes more years to build. Excavation equipment in operation in 1945 was 2.3 times that operating in 1940. The total capacity of bucket excavators was five times as great. By the end of the war, 3.2 times as many coal cars were operating in the pits as oper- ated before World War II. Productivity of labor is still low because of poor use of equipment and transport. Organization of overhaul and maintenance of excavating equipment is likewise unsatisfactory. Because of such deficiencies, the coal output from strip mines of the eastern regions during the first half of 1948 vas 6 percent below plan. The 1947 plan was also not fulfilled. The largest coal fields in the USSR suitable for open mining are in the eastern regions. These Include the :olchanskiy and Bogoslovsk fields on the eastern slope, of the Urals, the Korkino field in the Chelyabinsk region; the Babayevo, Mayeki, Voroshilov; Tyul'gan and others in Bashkir ASSR; the Cherem-. khnvo, Irsha-Borodino, Nazarovo and others in Eastern Siberia; the Raychikhinsk in the Par East USSR; the Angren in Central Asia, the Irtysh in. Kazakhstan and others. Each of these fields has vast supplies of coal suitable for open min- ing, the reserves estimated into billions of tons. In addition. the USSR has smaller fields having several million tons snit ably located for open mining. These include the Teniz, Korzhunkul'ek, the Kyaktinsk and others iv Kazakhstan; the Lermontovka field on Sakhalin; and the Lake Gasinoye field in Buryat-Mongol ASSR., Small open-pit operations should be undertaken at a number of fields where conventional shaft mines are being operated. Example, of this are the Krasnoprud, Novoeergiyevka and Prokop'yew pits in the Efubass. Open mining fields in European U?..SR include tre following the Fiayuekovek, Semenovkm-Golovkovsk, Masher ino-Svotlopol'skip, Verbolozovski; and Zolotarevkn fields to the western Ukraine; the Ebristofor and Veseln-Termovskiy fiels in the reepropetrovek region; and the Yurkovka field in the Kiev region. Most fields suitable for open mining, however, are either not yet in opera- tion or are only now having pits constructed. The only industrial-scale strip mininv now being carried on is in the Kor- kino, Bogoslovek ant' Volchanskiy fields is the Urals; the l1aychikhinnk fields in Khabarovsk Kray; and the Karagonjs and Chorcn&chovo fie:_3s in central Asia. Construction of pits is underway at Ve clo in the Urals; Nazarovo and Irsha- Borodino in eastern Siberia; I= the Kuzbane; and in Baydakovak, 3emenovka-Golov- kovsk and Yurkov$m in the western pert of Ukrainian SSE. Because of geological conditions acme coal fiel a can be opened for large- scale open mining in a relatively short time. Included in this group are the lignite fields in Bashkir ASSR, the Irtysh field in Kazakhstan, the Angren lig- nite field in central Asia and the lignite fields in the western parts of Ukrain- ian SSR. C~N~i~At. 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/24: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/24: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9 Deposits in the Bashkir ASSR fields are estimated at several hundred million tons. The postwar Five-Year Plan calls for broad development of open mining in this region. The coal is important for the industry, power plants and transport in the southern Urals region. The Irtysh field is the largest field suitable for open mining. The large its can be constructed there. The Angren field in Uzbek SSR is made up of three strata. The width of the bottom stratum is 40-50 meters. A pit is under construction there at present. The output of this mine, when developed, will be greater than the present entire output of central Asia. Central Asia, Tashkent and Tashkent's industrial area will be supplied from this mine, The Five-Year plan specifies the setting up of coal industry on the right bank and western regions of .Ukrainian SSR. The opening of 13 shafts and pits with a potential output of 9,700,000 tons annually is planned. This will make possible a decrease in the amount of Donets coal shipped into western Ukrainian SSR. Further development of open coal mining will depend to a great extent on the supplying of the mines with equipment. Anoag other thinge, the production of high power excavators, electric loooootives, railroad cranes and drag lines must be organized. The Diesel engine most be put into wide use in the rail transport of the pits. The production of electrical equipment for the new ma- ohimsry in very important. Coal mines are suffering fx?cm lank of spare parts, especially for excava- tars. Construction of the 1Ccrkino Loo omotive Bxoavator-Rail Car Repair Plant in Chelyabinsk Coal Combine is nearing completion. This will help solve the problem of equipment repair. Aydreawohanization was first put into praotioe at the coal pits in 1943. The amount of stripping work aotamplished by means of hydromeohanization was 470,000 cubic meters in 1943, 873,000 cubic meters in 1944, 1,393,000 cubic meters in 1945, 1,800,000 cubic meters in 1946 and 2,750,000 cubic meters in 1947. 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/24: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210955-9