ECONOMIC - GRAPHITE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220471-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 471
• Publication Date: April 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE OF
onomic - 0raphites INFORMATION 1949
Daily newspaper
YladtTaetak, USSR
3 Feb 1949
Russian
11o 27, 1949.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
"WO are MW 3epoeite of graphitic slate in Prim=-ukk:tr Mmw, tha moat
iapWtant of Which is the > akx'ye deposit in the basin of the P41ni Rie+sr.
This 4epo01t is located 13 kileeeters from the month of the Adimi in the
!breach' g'ar'e. M=g the Sasaoh' b,=tan stye , a left trfbutery of ih-i Aaisi.
The slate deposit on the 'steep bank of the Mauch' stream is 300 meters 1^4g -
aa3 109 Uteri s14m. Analysis of the slate firob 4lffezent eaotiora of %,, 8.-
posit indicates that it contains fron yS to 59 percent pie graphite.
Althosgh ,$a^a graphite is used by many branches of industxy, ir~1^vrling
aetalluraf the ETaanslro , g aphitta slate is'no,? suitable. for roofing
mlrteriaja. Since the elate laybre are exposed,, they are vorhel by the open
mPtho$.. The proxixity of the Cx~poeits to the seaeoest should malti shipment of
stn+w' to Vladivostok and nsarly fish ozabines profitable. ' Mwre are other
&,pseits., of elate, sritable for rvafing materials; near 8laty,'anka.
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