URANIUM AND MANGANESE MINES AT GHVALETICE

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia REPORT
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SUBJECT Uranium and tbmganese.Mines at DATE DISTR.
- 10 November
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Chvaletice
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1. Between the village of Telcice (0 51/M 48), the Teplice - Trnavka railroad line
and the villages of Zdechovice and Chvaletice (0 51/4 58), some old 18th century
copper mines are located. In 1952, the mines had only one mining tower. Test
drillings 'were, made to a depth of 600 meters and uranium was discovered 300
meters under the ground. Later, silter, lead and manganese were also discovered.
Mining is done with the aid of the mining tomer and work in the old shafts goes
to a depth of 600 meters.
2. The former village of Telcice has grown into a town with about 60 houses. Some
of these are tenem,nt houses, each with five stories and 24 apartments, includ-
ing a kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom. The 'new town area lies to the
south of Teplice and reaches to the edge of the forest starting at point 294.
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3. A two-story ferro-concrete building 30 by 50 meters in size was built at point
240, about 1,000 meters from the railroad track. Several wooden huts have been
built in the vicinity of Chvaletice.
4. A railroad line has been built from the Reeany station; it runs around the ore
deposits and leads to the ferro-concrete hall. The Recany station has also been
enlarged into a freight yard. The rpilroad line is connected with the galleries
by several narrow-gauge tracks.
5. The Chvaletice mines employ about 2,000 'or 2,500 workers, the majority of whom
live in the tenement houses qt Telcice. About 2,000 men perform heavy mining
work, while 400 or 500 women are employed in maintenance work, servioing the
narrow-gauge track and operating the crushing machines. The hardest work in
the most dangerous sections is done by some 400 prisoners from the labor camp
at Pardubice. Prisoners with short sentences who are not considered too danger-
ous live in a camp right at the Chvaletice mines, while the rest travel daily
to and from Pardubice. Airy employees of the Czechoslovak Construction Works
(Ceskovslovenske stavebni zavody - CSSZ) of Pardubice are also working at the
mines. Work is done in three shifts.
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6. The mines are flooded, and this is a great hindrance to getting full opei;ation
going. Specialists do not think that the mines can be pumped dry in the? near
future. However, large pumping stations and new drainage pipes are being con-
structed, leading to two ponds on the northern side of the railroad track. From
these ponds, the water is released into the Elbe River after it has been chemi-
cally analyzed to determine that it does not contain poisonous substances.
7. Oi-=e is brought up from the shafts by means of a narrow-gauge funiciller railroad
and is then transferred to the ferro-concrete building. On the ground floor of
this building are the crushing machines; on the second floor the machine shop
and the electric switchboard are located. Ore is first crushed in the machines
and then rinsed with water so that the heavier manganese ore sinks down. The
ore is then loaded into railroad cars and most of it is sent to Vitkovice; how-
ever, some of it is sent to Kladno.
8, The Capacity of the Chvaletice mines is 15 or 20 carloads of rinsed, clean ore
per three-shift day.
9. The Chvaletice mines have their own administration, which is located at Chvaletice.
The majority of the personnel were trained at Jachymov.
10. Electricity is supplied by the Pardubice powerhouse through the switchboard
in the ferro-concrete building.
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