DARVASTO BAUXITE MINES/LOCATION OF DEPOSITS AND MINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01043R001000070011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 24, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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Darvaeto began operating in July of 1956, was closed down by strikes
during the uprising, but by 1 December had started slowly to remae
ct{ on 4 It should }nave been going fall blast by February 1957,
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.. butOno.means of confirming this. In any event, tests of
Darvasto 0rI indicated that it contains 30-50 per Cent alumiintnn
oxide rai4 1G-20 per cent iron and this, plus the speed with
will
the bauxite can be mined, indicate that eventually Darvasg
figure very large in Hungary's wing efforts.
8. AU bauxite taken from the Balimba and Dervasto mines was carried
in tracks to a Soviet-rrm plant in the city of Ajka, which 5 4
miles north of g~fmba. The Soviets paid the munifice o
their
forints per ton of bauxite ore, and after proeesoing sent
output to the i for rr *ufac . Some of it rtedly went
to 31st Germany and Csechoslo
any case, Iungariat* had a Peeling n y pa a p ce
for imported in-mod therq were very likely buying back their
own bauxite.
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