SDAG WISMUT INSTALLATION NO. 6
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September 7, 1955
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REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
East Germany
SDAG Wisaiiu.t t Installation, No. 6
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
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Construction workers were seen-entering and leaving the installation.
It was rumored that the enlargement was connected with a possible
storage of contact ore III: It was also rumored that Friesen, which
is located close to the main shaft in installation No 6, could
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30 carloads of contact ore II were daily dispatched toward Lengefeld
for washing. Enlargement work at Friesen .was not yet completed.
40w. I ago. .-A
Em 4"4*7e~
,''ie efttire installation area to Tanncnbergsthal for wa.shi..ng. Other
ore types were allegedly not processed there.1
No changes were observed at the Bergen mining district. It was
:S=w=k ,.- expected that the new gallery 151 would be rich.
During the period of observation, this gallery was driven through
drift 151 at the 366-meter level of shaft 254. However, work has not
yet been successful. So far, the usual lenticular masses of ore of
uranium mica, which are characteristic for the Bergen galleries,
have only been found. The intensive driving of transverse gallery
To 14 toward the mining areas of the two combines of Zobes is also
of interest, since it is expected that, after leaving the Bergen
r.will lead to the slate layer of lobes which is
?ern en was thus riade_a_bLxLzx_ ax-ea
1111111110' shaft No 14.1
own to-a level of 30 meters an
No 11 and 151 did not yet s'aow a cl
lode. Drifts of the 366.-meter level
was continued, include
(gallery 109), and ;5
to Gallery 151. Gallery
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II, which had so far been 400 and 120 tons respectively, appears
to have increased during the first quarter of 1955?
During the first quarter of 1955, an average estimated output of
1,500 to 2,000 boxes of uranium mica containing contact ore II was
reached per month. The monthly average amount of contact ore I and
5. The two combines of the lobes
force estimated at 4,000 men.
The Zobes mid)
two indepen
fol1.oc!in ar
en been divided into
and.3'.r%
Concordance Y-coordinate
Number Number
Shaft 277
Shaft 294
Shaft 320
Shaft 354
Shaft-362
17,360
95, 890
436 meters
18,110
95'930
477
17,580
95,390
474
17,810
95,700
447
(central shaft)
17,430
94,690
480 meters
(central shaft)
There may be differences of plus/minus 10 meters in the coordinates and
of plus/minus 1 meter in the heights. The plan providing for an
enlargement of shaft 277 was not yet completed. After late February
1955, an iron elevator tower was seen over the shaft. Shafts 354 and
362 were also called central shafts by their combines.
ted strata at Zobes was slate rock, large amounts
?e found there, which placed Zobes among the first
._4? reducing locations of Vlismut.
sari other information on results achieved for contact groups
the output figures for Zobes were estimated
Contact ore I : During the last months, below the 10,000 tons which 25X1
had previously been-reported and which amount was
estima E ,. v +~;L# main output was pitch
blender
ylwbom~ tnly little contact ore I.
Contact ore II: Approximately 2,000 tons during the months of the
first quarter of 1955.
Bergen were not available. It was learned, however, that considerable amounts
were found at Zobes.
m rood, since pertinent figures from
Compact ore, that M 9I e output figures for Zobes could
Contact ore III: Approximately 12,000 to 15,000 boxes per month in the
first.qua~# - ?
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mining district still had a work
No further dismissals were observed.
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The growing importance of Zobes for', ' - iii aluo indicated
by intensified security measures '.,iscl i by t} tration in
Auerbach which is also responsible for Zobes. The guards for the
individual shafts of the two combines were combined into a central
guard service for the entire area of Zobes. A 2.50 meter barbed-
wire fence surrounded the shafts and local administrations of the
entire mining district of Zobes. KVP chocked general `.`.'ismut passes
and individual shaft passes. of persons entering and l eavinn the
installation.
8. Installation No 6, which includes the combine Schneckenstein and
the Ta;.nnonbergsthal minin district had approximately 2,000 men:
The shaft numbers previously reported for Schneckenstein wore
confirmed. At all shafts of Schneckenstein and Tei enbergsthal, the
first levels were at a depth of 100 meters, measured from the
surface. Other main levels followed at internals of 60 meters in
depth. Between these levels, the--c were intermediate lovele to be
Peached through closed shafts. The structure of the mine seems to
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be very similar to that in Zobes.
Since most of the Schneckenstein
d in slate rock
area, an output of large amounts
l#~_T
it be expected.
The galleries which sloped at an *916 of 40 to.
'degrees, in a
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north-south strike direction were flat, difficult to work on, often
on the verve of' profitable exploitation. The Schneckenstoin and
Ta.nrmabergs thal output figures could not be obtained.
The Tarnnenbergsthal mini nc; district with its main shaft 181 . had
the same difficulties as did Bergen. Both distr 2_ots were
almost exhausted and Were about to be shut do :n. There was much
talk about the "profitableness" at the mine administrations a:-ad it
was learned that the main headquarters of installation 6 in Auerbach
planned to abandon shafts which failed to fulfil their plan two or
three times.
11. The geological experimental shaft at Schoenbrunn1which included a
number-of prospects scattered over the entire area of installation-
0ontinued operation. Shafts 172, 184 and 278 which were said to
belong to Schoenbru_nn do not exist. There were also no indications
that digging was actually done in the installation. The following
coordinates and heights were given for prospects 19, 37 and 59:
Concordance Y-coordinate Tloi_ght above
Number Number sea level
Prospect 19 19,100
P ospact 37 16,400
Prospect 59 189465
93,800
91,890
93,595
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4.49 meters .
Comment. The abcve-monticned distribution of contact groups may
be authentic as this was confirmed by the
Bergen district. The assumption that contact ore III was trucked in
boxes from the shaft directly to Zengefeld could not be cones i rm.ed.
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e,; psc,,ted that the no i gallery 151 riot d Cl'a via!.
During W >'''r^C of this gallery >-i t drMn Mxcug
drift 13.. A ..:.1^ JjW 7"'w for l o io2. of Halt 254. Eo'iev : t ,c 'i ~~To not
yet 3 u.:d i;03G WN. W fay, ` hs COW 1O?',ntioni,o ::^;3sow of oyt",' Of
cranium Moe,-;) u1n.o':2- cw(~' OR thm Bergen l
d eva only bean fount. The ..Z':tang .o 1.....`.t;ing of ri::a.. ov,::ono -r'. l Ne:,y
W o 1, ~C9l:c the mining .`'ohn 6, : M tun eombin o of Moo fe Woo
of iato 'nsto earn wpe:'otti ;C' tW9 after leaving tho ' vgoli
g mi to acch, it W11 load to the Onto layer ofJo co Mich lo Koh
in rGzgan waQ thus main a bo::'la area of the Zoboc;
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1;? 11 and 151 did not yet fC,hoy a Vast pi-turn of the ~9+a:~:z=:e;i.,;'
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