DEVELOPMENT OF THE NON-FERROUS METAL INDUSTRY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015500350010-5
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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II TELLOFAX 11
FEB 1952 51-4AA
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Development of the Non-Ferrous Metal
Industry.
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1. During 1952 work began in four new lead and zinc mines located at
Rudnik, Novo Brdo, Ajvalija and Veliri Majdan.
Rudnik (Sumadiia)
2. The finishing touches are being put to the installations of this lead
and zinc mine, which will include a modern excavating system, hitherto
unused in Yugoslavia. The output of the mine will be 500 tons of ore
daily.
Novo Brdo (Serbial
3. Working of this lead and zinc mine is about to begin. Its initial pro-
duction will be about 250 tons daily.
AivaliJa (Kosovo and Metohija)
4. The excavation of lead and zinc in this mine will begin within a few
months.. The railway station of Badovac is nearing completion and the
conveyor from Ajvalija to Trepea is ready. The ore from Ajvali,a will
be processed at Trepea.
Veliki Maidan Serbia)
5. In terms of production this is a smaller lead and zinc mine, the daily
extraction rate being about 100 tons.
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Tre-Pea
6. Extensive improvements begun two years ago are still going on. It is
planned to increase the power of the thermoelectric plant 40 per cent
in 1952. At Stari Trg (Trepca) a large new elevator is being installed
which will reduce the cost of underground transport and enable new seams
to be worked. Transport of coal in the power plant is being mechanized.
A system for the pulverization and disposal of residue from the power
plant is being installed. The foundry is being modernized. All these
improvements, with the exception of the elevator, are to be completed
in 1952.
7. Trepca will be the processing plant for the output of all four new mines,
i.e., the ore of Ajvalija and the lead concentrate of Rudnik, Veliki
Majdan and Novo Brdo. Soon the industrial capacity of Trepca may permit
the export of semi-manufactured products.
Zletovo
8. This Macedonian lead mine is the second largest in Yugoslavia. A new
pump, a new crusher and a new conveyer are under construction.
Additional Mines
9. Work is in progress on two farther -lead and zinc mines, which are scheduled
to begin production in 1952. The first, Lece, in southwest Serbia, is
planned to yield 250 tons of ore daily, as well as 500 kilos of gold a
year. An electric conveyer has been completed. The workers' houses will
be ready this year.
10. The other is the Suplja Tijena mine, at the foot of mount Ljubisnje in
Montenegro. The planned output of this mine is 250 tons daily. Besides
the normal installations a road 40 to 50 kilometers long has been built.
It is thought that this mine will not have a long life since it is at
1,400 meters above sea level.
Co - er
11. The mine at Bor is to be modernized along the lines of Trepca. Improve-
ments are soon to be completed on the flotation process. At present
the output of this mine is 3000 tons daily, but it is planned to increase
this by one third. By 1953 it is also hoped that it will be possible
to extract annually 700 kilos of gold from the quartz.
12... The most important objective at Bor this year is to achieve the electrolysis
of copper. When this process is under way it is possible that all copper
mined in Yugoslavia will be processed at Bor. This would avoid the necessity
of exporting the raw material and importing processed copper. The export
of electrolytic copper even is foreseen. Up to now it has been possible
to extract only 55 per cent of the copper from the ore, but more modern
methods and equipment will yield, it is hoped, an extract of 90 per cent
in future,
13... Thb main factory floor of the future copper foundry at Sevojin will be
394 meters long by 102 meters in width. Construction should be completed
by 1952. In 1953 the production of copper products and copper alloys is
expected to reach 25,000 tons annually.
Wolf ram
14. By the end of 1952 wolfram and gold will be mined in eastern Serbia near
Peka (Blagojevacki Kamen, Neresnich).
Antimony
15. UU to now two flotation plants for antimony have been installed at Stolice
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and lobar Potor, both near Yrupnja. Two further flotation plants for
antimony are nearing completions one near Brosina (district of Loznioa)
and another at Bujanovac, on the borders of Serbia and Macedonia.
Aluminum
16. The Strmisce and Razina plants are the two most important Yugoslav
aluminum plants. When c=pleted they will together produce 30,000 tons
of aluminum annually (at present Yugoslavia produces about 3,000 tons
annually). Razina will have a capacity of 4500 tons or more produced
by an all electric factory. The aluminum foundry will produce 15,300
tons of aluminum products such as containers, sheets, wire, tubes,
profiles, etc. Construction work at Strmisce should be completed by
the -end of 1952.
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