DISCOVERY OF COPPER DEPOSITS IN IRAQ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400320002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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104 FORNIATI ti ORT
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SUBJECT Dis c ovary of Copper Deposits
ACQUIRED
in Iraq
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10 a geological team, under the direction and
supervision of'a British geologist, has discovered large deposits of
copper at Iiero, Iraq, - forty rules IWWW7 of Sul aim=Jya9 within two miles
of the Iranian bordora This vain is judged by informant to average
40 porc?nt copparo*
2.1111 the British geologist in charge has been
cautioned xry rx (tech, Government not to reveal the ricimoss of the
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for such secretiveness on the part of the Government is the fear that
this rich natural resource mould make an independent Kurdish state
ccononical3y feasible, and would provide the Kurds with a propaganda
weapon if its existence were knav
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Count. This percentage of copper seeds very high, in vi?cr
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some, of the boat veins in the United States average
between i-4 percento
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the iragi Government revealed to the Iraqi press
in mid-January that copper deposits had boon discovered in northe Iraq,
but stated that the ore avnragod between 1.7 percent, and that the extant
of the vein was not Imoome
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