URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE FREITAL AREA

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• Publication Date: October 19, 1949
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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Uranium Deposits in the
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Cota- was produced for 100 years :tn the "Pla-aensche Grund", souCtl
ot DWODEN (N 5!,.VP 29) .n.aY! PRIMAL (J 52/F 18). The annual..o-
put Wa$ 21J ,C(.0 tons in 1:35, and abut 80,00:J tons in 1947.
Except for some small remainders the mines are exhausted now.
The hard of the so-ealled. "Doehlen" Basin is patof
the new-red (onglomerate. It is of more rev:ent date than the
coal of the Erzgebirge Basin around ZWICKAU (N 51/K 34) and
LUGM7-0ELSNITZ (N 51/K 54). It was deposted in thr,f,- layPrz,
also locally in four layers.
b. The coal of the main layer was usua'il- known as s.late coal
duc: 'ix) impurities caused by imbedded slate ,olay
olay consisted alternately of eoal slate, h ti iruu shalq and
,aterile, rusty- slate clay. The transition betwcen thr second
aid thira lAyer was of solid. slate f;oal used only
as ,e:)-called bituminous shale. This bituminolmaTIe
'reunpaykle, was usually not mined. The topmoHt (oal
layer the main. 3t:Alm was ouniounted by the "green shelJ" n9t
mach thicker than about inch and consisting solid to
oterile coal slate, llost of the mines had alraady shut lown,
The 'Russian lismuth Corporation became interested in i'rLese
Si*xor hjrd coal deposits in mid-January 1.947. The r9d.).met
test.s the ZJIC4AIT-CELS1IITZ Ditriot were natJ.ve but
the "Doehlen" Bd registered a slight radity.
Vining operation was started in ;co area.
a, V.:vst in the ZATICKEOU4.1Plant whAL was still in oparation.-
peoin6 activities were r:ohtiniwl on rjght bank of thetleis,
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(i' the ,.;,iU0411:a01)D Plant) ended rnti: v4th unaatic-
f4.1ctor xeL4,tifi ti peL xft vue returni.P:1 thw
c. The situation ,mau more promisin..: on the 21:2:it bunk 11
tho t.;ix unafts with an avera?;.e il,etoth Of
fect, Iere &walk in ropia sequence aurilIC tne'soColid half
cif 1947. Thu work force inorea,:,ed to about aix thouptInd wen.
11.1 tho shafts qcre in tle eld mine fields ne-tr
TTEaLL? 51/V 113). The uranium occurrenteL
?we2c confined to 64.:c uppermost co'a layerat.especially c41 the
fAlbeddtd bitatlipinOus shale layers. Lxperiuental burnin Of pro-
duced 00,11 yIeldea traces of uranidm in the ashes P4nd
ly of thorimm also. Thee firf,Jt reoUllm were shipped tis*thet
SU apparently far experillents on radium production frona'quraft,ium-
conttliniuL Ishes. ILlese tests :lay it have been satiafactory
as no fu.f;tr thiptni;s wee sont for a lonE.ttae. Lace
stocks 0o2 produced bituminous whale liece stored at tho
stLition in a 1!..;e enclosure sarxounded by a hi.c.;h bout'
fence. ia production will ap)arently be abondonedi, as Cie
work force raw!lrkably decreased. Uix hundred meT; were cent to
Nlederroebol utic.re.n.a3 oponin,_; projects were undertaken'iq the
lead and tin district
in the upoeY;.en" Lasin was coL.centrated neax
ahd W.1.1.4:011/1,42icO of ttl, t.;0-cel1ed
Imre 46:lo most productive.relon. The 131*: fOrce
sIi*Vvierictid t%c,re in its previoue,strenth. .
prospectin activities started in the area of u4..VIII-
332 at the southwes--fiern tip of tLe coal depression. .
v;ere not known. .T.hree ma:Al sea existed there in the center
part .1.1! the newred conL;loMerate. tome few experimeiltal
OpTatiOfle were ma,:e on these. scams ':iithout any resultant pro-
dudtion. The stxonest of these seaids occasionally reac'3.ed a
thicknesz of 32 inch. he quality of the produCed coal was
very?poor. These tArbe kluau2 h?la no connection with thotle de-
posited i4 tne 2:ewer new-red conlomerate of the main depres-
sion. The centr p:Art of the new-red contlomerate of Vie main
depression hud been almost entiIely excavated aafik. Vaese geaws
only occurred for veTy short distances new: selinItiatila
ILLo forr mine fields og the unimportant U.A1211101 Itard
Coal hiniii. Association, located in the eaattrn district, had
been exhausted und alonldoned Iiiceabout 1910. Renewed pros
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pectin led to neative results just as in the area mot at
the -eisserit
g. (ally the workable mines of th.e ZAUC..i0E and BUVL-X elants
are entered on VALI sketch. -The old Mines of tile (Ityve14, and
C(i1,1111:TZ
hard Coal Anin Association are not show?4- Nene of
these minas had bnw :cc-opened by tie Soviets. They sank now .
mine shafts, all ut them loeuted in to area of ccuglipETz-
GITTIL-BAI tnJ!, in the itrtAarn part of PRIATAL.
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5. The ectivities of the diuuutli Corporation declined ovhciderubli
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in tne arca. Only about workuen vie.:.e employed a
the tio of observl,tion as aiilst a maximum fi-mre of 695!'0,.
Set;e minin_ imItallations weae returned to the Gerdian aamifitstra-
titn aha a number of !erkmen qere transferred to the Nuani..e,
Diotriet. :;,..4ac of tae m..te.rial produced in iraITAL web tu=1
to ashes awlshio, h.stly at nitsht. Unburnt aoel vac ald0
Se.ltember_lag.
6. The ureitium mines of the 7ismath Coxporation neur 11147TAL ;ere
L;iven the name "Project No 6".
7. Lxploratory dri1L1izi indicted zica uranium occurrenceo in tbe
CCCILZ area.enL at Vac olu 0?,)el Lio nor ZAUCKB4L,DB. The
exploratory drillih_s near BULiGh vrore su*penaed. -Tbe-,.ovietz
expected tao best fin(Ainjo to bo on the ri:qt bank of the reia-
s*.:ritz rdver.
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S. The mine near ZAUCk-,:cvE located not of the 044,ITitILW),CUVF
hijuvluy ,Ihd a mine nex PT14.1i/ITZ wee returned to t")e. German
adminiwtrution by the ,ismlith Cor2or3tion ao Vleir urdniia pro-
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Uranium tetc:ore made 0A rock ma-triale produce4 in-the.VMA10..
ZADCh12 areu. The forhair Xylolith Pi,:;; In 2PKEITAL. -
was instdlicd for?tdoz,e *t4otu. Cat KUIDUIr wax the magger of
tFoe0orprice,
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excavation of a c11ery started in DICiSoLLZa42r:L
next to tIle "Braunemuehle".. .:ork T,fa;,i a ,ne in three shifts,
eL ith 60 workmen. .no prGuoita uranlum ores weo packed
in.toxeo ant2. shi;.)pc,?: to the PLTJLAPe:L -s station.
iriin op,iatioLs l'ore
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.ello uranium occurrences in taio ..Lreu we.??e, hnoma before 1945, ,but
were coheidereC, un9rofital,le ..4na no p;ouction wal; started. The
roxt inkAcates th-t ovit sytematictllT 1race and
exploit even tILe slaallczt uranium oovurrences .7ithoat recArd to
2rofitab1enee3.
Location of Central and Western "Doehlenn-Duoin near
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