GYPSUM AND METAL MINES IN HUNAN AND KIANGSI

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• Publication Date: March 23, 1952
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FED 1952 51-4AA
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION CONFI ENTIAL/CONTROL _ U. S. OFFICI,AI
SECURITY INFORMATION "~
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Chin
SUBJECT Gypsum and Metal Mines in Hunan and Kian
gqi
DATE OF
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-L11 -LY40 at Pantangpu, across the river from Hsi to
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en of the Central and South__China Region.
Director of the Bureau was HSU Tung Oft )f- )q -gs
orderly, and deputy director was CH IENG Y' (4 formerly MAO To f Gen r al
Chaien 'tary '- 4- )a nephew of General
g Quite a number of
Soviet engineers and allurgistsa'were 'attached to the Bureau
with their aid it was planned to increase the 1951 overall metal mining
effort in Hunan by 21 percent over 1950.
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A- rrand or gypsum_ to make cement
for coastal defense works,,
Metals in Hunan.- Metal mining was controlled 4
the Metal Mining.
of Hunan, which was established in the autumn by 19
the Heavy Industry n. rt
50, suborrdinate~reau
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e 32 compar~le.s a Ir. an
is
ailing used in the concerns m ufactur~ of cement, fertilizers ancL 8 t%cs, ~ which
, Yung An and Yung Li.., operated Thy tiro
The total monthly output of shafts - be-tween them~
42800 piculs of rock salt asg a y by-product. fromproductPantangpu was 50, 9OW piculsq with
,
2. After the Communist Occupation the local
the mines and operated.. them on a reduced scaley committee confiscated
20 d
of 9ypsumpe? month, The HsiangteaffiLocal ._ProductsGo sub dj of
i
the General Trading Cob of Central and South China, was buying _the:
output and sending 99000 piculs to the South China g
Canton, the remainder to Shanghai. via Hankow? Industrial Co. of
In. the spring Of 1952 it is proposed to reopen the derelict mines to
increase output because of the creat
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The Metal Mining Bureau has four branches in Hsinhua 1.11_ t~I M LY RECORDS CE IM
Hsien9 Huang (109-06, 27,21) Heien$, 'Hungehian ` 9.27?1~ }
and Chvangning (99.369 24.-50) Hsien respectivell09?58, 27-3.0) HsiBBQX
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R0 Antimony. Hsinhua Hsien produces antimony,, The quantity produced
was no known.,' but all of it was going. to the USSR and Czechoslovakia,
Mercury, Huang Hsien was well-known for its mercury., and the Soviet
experts found that there was a large potential of good quality.
Except for the vermilion powder which -_-.,,,s used locally., Huang ? s
entire output of mercury was being sent to the. USSR,
c. ?7,old. Hungehiang Hsien was producing somewhat over 100 ounces of
gold per day,
d. Silver. Aluminum, ChRanngning Hsien was producing 14 piculs a day
o. si ver an ri unknown quantity of aluminum,
6, Wolfram in Kiansi. When the Communists occupied Kiangsi._ in 19L9. they
encouraged the reopening of the wolfram mines scattered along the Tayu
mountains in 11 hsien of Kiangsi._ For the first 12 month,, of Communist"
occupation Kiangsi.mining was coordinated by LIU Ya?hsin9 a mine manager
who defected to the Communists. LIU was responsible to. a Communist
military superintendent,, but personally had the entire. tecr ii sa1,. direc-
tion of the concern. Most of the pits reopened,, but no effort was made
to increase output over the previous level.
7. In the summer of 1950 the signing of the Sino-Soviet Trade Agreement
bound China to export her whole production of wolfram.ore to the USSR
or as the Soviets might request. Soviet technicians arrived with. modern
mining machinery,, and output began to rise, All wolfram mines in Kiangsi
were nationalized and put under the Bureau of Metal Ore Mining., and LIU
was replaced by FAN Jen-fu.
8e The daily output of wolfram. ore in Kiangsi_ during September 1951 was
-510 tons. The breakdown by mines of this wolfram ore and of September
1951 tin ore output in Kiangal are shown in Attachment A.
9, After October 1951 it was expected that output would increase by 39000
tons every month, and hs.t in the last quarter of 1951 altogether 2L}9000
tons would. be produced-,- ~hk target was to raise production to LGO9000
tons monthly by June Z-0552. All the ore was to be shipped via the Kan
River to Changshu (115-309 28-04)9 and from there by rail to Shanghai.
It was generally believed it would be shipped by sea from Shanghai to
Vladivostok,
10, Mine conditions were fairly good. Miners were paid 160 catties of rice
per month and received one suit of Lenin uniform each year. Provincial
Governor SHAO Shih-p Ring (n was visiting the mines once a month
to encourage the staff e
It is not clear whether the production increase
each month is , 9 greater than the previous month's outputs From the
statement that the target for June 1952 is 40,,000 tons monthly this might
be assumed. In this case the-production figure of. 211,,000 tons probably
refers to Decemher 1951 rather than to the last quarter of 1951
Ene ? Attachment L:.a Cr '?Ppu , of Wolfram and Tin Ore
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Ru y 2 LWolEram and Tin Ores
Place
Tingnan K eiweishan
(115-009 24-40) (- L )
Tashi han.
()`41 LLI
Yi gfi engshan
( a )
Wutsanshan
Tayu Hsih ,shan Large machines 20.9000
(114-229 25-26) (\ t.ij )
Chaiennan
(114-26, 24-44)
Anyuan
(115-109 25-00)
Nankaang
(114-529 25-44)
( u
4
IIMIethod
of WOrk.Lo
Small machines 20 ,1 000
89000
8,000
2 000
Hsingkuo F
(115-129 26-26) (
Yutu
(115-209 26-02)
ameishan
Paiosan
(,gel )
Kuangch9ang K9a huahan
(116-16, 26-50) ( Ail J-- )
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Daily Oa put of
Wolfram Ore in Daily Output of
Tons T Ore in Tows
40
4.0
40
51.0
15
274
Manual
Marina .
Manual
1,9000
1,000
109000
170 9 000
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