SHORTAGES OF BAUXITE AND PYRITE ORES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005000550003-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: REPORT

Thle material contslne Iniormatloa aQecting the Na-
tlonal Defence of the UnltaQ States wlthln the mean-
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REPORT
SUBJECT -'gar{%~~ '~' - of Bau_ci.to c~.nc Y;rite Oren DATE DISTR. 5 October 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
DATE OF INFO. REQUIREMENT NO. RD 25X1
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1. There is a serious shortage of bauxite ore for loading on dovmriver barges at
the river port of Kom>lroms Hungary. Upriver barges are loaded tritY. Rarsian
and Bulgarian pyrite ore which is unloaded at Komarno' Czechoslowaid:, T"ne
empty barges are then shunted to KomnromP Hungary to be loaded ~.aith bau.~ite,
Recently, because of the ore shortages many barges go docmriver empty ard. those
trhich are loaded at Korlarom usually must wait a considerable length o? tim 25X1
ore,
Curren shag age o aux a ore n ungary s as o n..... ror the past ti,_
or three years the Hungarian authorities in charge o mines have t.~een ex::~aaively
interested in meeting the heavy demands for ore as called for in the yearly pl~r.;,
Consequently they have neglecter? to carry out the most elementary safety ncc.:;uza^.
alorking in the mines has now ?ecome so danPer~ns that the Wining cuthorit:.;:~
erere forced to go back anc prepare all of the necessary shoring and. overh?::,~
beaming before mining can be reuumed., 25X1
3, The Soviet DDSG vas^el VLADIVO5TOK was held up at the Russian port of Rel!i.
ten or more days because of a shortage of pyrite ore for loading on uprivor
barges. The reason for the existing shortage is not knowns but it is genes
knowledge at the Soviet DDSG that there has been far less ore chipped upriver.
from the Soviet Union so far in 195L, *han for the same period curing the
previous year, It is not unusual these gays for barges to be hei,~! up at Ceni
or Izmail in the Soviet Union while waiting for incoming uhipment,~ of pyrite ore,