URANIAUM ORE-DRESSING PLANTS AT PECHTELSGRUEN AND TANNENBERGSTHAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R003400060007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION aEC ET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
REPORT NO
INFORMATION REPORT CD M
*DOE REVIEW COMPLETED*
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Uranium Ore-Dressing Plants at Pechtelsgruen NO. OF PAGES
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PLACE
.ACQUIRE
DATE OF
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
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OF 118 COVISOTS IN ART MANNEII TO AN OOAOTHORISED PZR0071 18 PRO-
111B110D ST LAW. RSPRODOCTION OP TSIO FORM Is PROHIBITED.
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Pitchblende shipments fron, the A:uo uranium mining district to
Pechtelsgruen declined rerarkably, though the labor force in the
mining district was steadily increasing. Daily shipments, previously
30 to 40 carloads, dropped to half that amount. According to information
of miners employed in the Schneeberg district, the reason for this
decline was that construction of dressing plants was commencing at
the individual iidnies. These construction projects -acre necessar
because of the acute lack of rolling stock and the water shortage already
experienced in the past year., ('a.er conditions in Schneeborg are
exceptionally favorable) .
b, This information my be correct as the Soviets recently brought up
many strong trAter pipes, field Iii tracks, and dump cars, which will
probably be used for shil)ping the pitchblende from the different
objects to the dressing plait.
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Six% thousand workmen were employe in uranium In lk U4!5!/ t and
vicinity. The ore was dressed in the Lengenfeld 0-151A,22) and
Tannenbergsthal (:351,.31) dressing plants and packed in sheet-metal
containers which subsequently were racked in crates similar to 3-foot
artillery shell containers. Forty box-carloads (total output of
concentrates) left for the East under military guard in January 1949.
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The following pitchblende shipnents left for the USSR from the uranium
mining district:
1947:
1 January to 1 August 1948:
The total expense was ].O;; bill'c n _.
CLASSIFICATION
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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