NORTH BOHEMIAN BROWN-COAL MINES IN THE MOST (BRUX) AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R005600010001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
DATE DISTR. 13 June 1950
SUBJECT Worth Bohemian Brown-Coal Mines NO. OF PAGES 2
in the Most (Brix) Area
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*i271S9W " 1.A]4. 1 Small trucks with --team or Diesel-powered engines are used to transport the
overlay. The following conveyors are employed to transport the coal frog. the
mines to the sorting stations :
a. Endless belt conveyor,
b. 'supported cable conveyor,
c, Endless chain carriage,
d. Endless cable carriage.
From the sorting stations to the station plant, the coal is transported
by ordinary railway trucks. Normal gauge Linke-Hoffmann trucks with a capacity
of 8 cu.m0 are used for quick loading. Coal for the Most power station is
carried by normal railway trucks and for the Stalin plant by special Talbot
reinforced cars run on a specially built electrified railway with automatic
blocks and signals,, The capacity of each reinforced car is 80 tons. An
electric engine is used to pull from six to eight cars, and a steam engine
if the train is longer.
6. About 39 levels in the mines are worked simultaneous1 r, and approximately
26,000 men in two shifts are employed, although three shifts are possible.
The present output of coal is not known, but in 1946 it was six times larger
that it was in 1938. It is estimated that there is a coal reserve sufficient
for the next 120 years, assuming an output similar to that of 1946,. The Stalin
plant uses 70 percent of the entire first-grade coal yield from the four large
mines, but the exact amount is not known. The Ervenice power station uses the
third-grade coal, called Lupek, which contains almost 5~ percent earth and
stole,
7. The large mines have their own power station, which satisfies all their
demands. This station is also able to supply current to some of the other
mines, and the Ervenice power station supplies the remainder of the mines as
well as the Stalin plant. A very large power station which is now under con-
struction should be capable of supplying all the mines as well as other con-
sumers0 it is reported that this power station will be larger than was the Ervenice
power station prior to its expansion.
About 8,000 persons are employed in the Stalin Hydrogenation Plant,- they work
in three shifts.
In 1944-1945, now modern and well-equipped repair shops were constructed at
Komorany. These shops are capable of repairing every type of r shine such an
is used in minin-: and transportation, and they employ 1,000 persons,
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