MINERAL SOURCES IN TIBET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600190001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Little mining or prospecting has been done in Tibet. It is the policy of
the Tibetan Government not to allow extensive mining because Tibetan believe
that the spirits af' thca~ th would be of fended by efforts to extract mine- 1/
rail. flora, beneath the suxfacep.of tx a ground.
Go]de sometimes in the f orm of nuggets, occurs ride1yx, and panning for gold
e t e Xham.area.,, where the presence of oil is indicated, by traces of
Several years agb, a deposit o. mercury bubbled up near Lhasa, and people
There are indications of uranium deposits in the northwest plains
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