NOTES DEVELOPMENTS IN METALS, MINING INDUSTRIES'

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• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany; Czechoslovakia DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
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PUBLISHED Daily, semiweekly, weekly newspapers
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NOTES DEVELOPMENTS IN METAL, MINING INDUSTffiESr
NEW TYPE OF BRONZE TO REPLACE BERYLLIUM -- Nachrichten Puer Aussenhandel, _
No.22~ 18 Mar 59
The people-owned enterprise Sonderbronze (special bronze), Berlin-Ober-
achoeneweide, displayed a new kind oP bronze at the Leipzig Fair which is used
in the manufacture oP spark-proof tools. The producer claims that this bronze
is a 160-percent substitute for the formerly used beryllium.
ENLARGE IRONWORKS -- Nachrichten Puer Aussenhandel, No 29, 15 Apr 56
The Doehlen Ironworks near Dresdett will be enlarged into one oP the most
modern high-quality steel mills in Germany, in order to be able to satisfy the
demand for all of East Germany. Production is to start early in 1951. Three
electric furnaces, with capacities of 3, 5, and 10 tons, will be installed.
The Pirst rolling mill ie being installed at present.
FINISH NEW GIANT EXCAVATOR -- Nachrichten Puer Aussenhandel, No 29, 15 Apr 50
The Buckau-Wolf Machine Factory of the Soviet "Amo" Machine-Building Cor-
poration in Magdeburg, has completed work on a giant excavator weighing 170
tons. With its 40-meter fib and a bucket holding 3.5 cubic meters, this ex-
cavator can clew 200 cubic meters per hour. It will be used for brorm-coal
strip mining is the Nachterstedt area.
INTRODUCE NEFi MACffiNES -- Rude Pravo, No 9, 11 Jan 50
The coal. loader, which was built at the Zdenek Ne,~edly Mine at Soue (Most
okres), can fill 150 carte, that is, about 11.5 carlasds, during one shift.
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The Ministry of Technology recently approved a new device as the best
proposed means for plastering walls mechanically. The machine is equipped
with rotary shovels made of rubber, which pick up mortar from a special drum
and plaster the wall. The mobile machine can plaster 50 square meters of
wall space per hour, and can be serviced by unskilled labor. It can plaster
a wall strip 60 centimeters wide sad up to 3.5 meters high in one pick-up.
A prototype is already being produced by a state enterprise.
1949 CZECH COAL PRODUCTION -- Hospodar, No 1, 5 Jan 50
A total of 17,041,150 tons of black coal and 26,523,000 tons of brown
coal was mined in Czechoslovakia in 1949?
REACH MAXIMUM CAPACIT't IN BROWN COAT, MINING -- Nachrichten fuer Aussenhandel,
No ~0, 1} Feb 50
Maximum capacity in brown-coal strip mining and in briquette manufacture
was reached during 1949 in Eaet Germany, according to Gustav Sobottka, head
of the Coal Department in the Ministry for Industry. Only opening new strip
mines and increasing briquette manufacturing Facilities can increase the ca-
pacity.
The 1949 supply of construction materiels for new mines and briquette
factories did not even meet the planned allotment, which was already too low.
For example, 90 percent of the allotment of pipes, 80 gercent of the allot-
ment of rails and sheet metal, 60 percent of the allotment of section iron,
and 50 percent of the bearing metal allotment were not actually received. In
addition, there has been a shortage of electric locomotives, cars for clear-
ing work, and briquette presses.
Brown coal requirements in 1953 are expected to be 55 percent higher
than they were in 1949.
UNCOVER RICH COPPER MINE IN SANGERHAUSEN -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 116,
21 May 50
Geological investigations indicate that copper mining in the newly
opened Sangerhausen district should ps~ove highly profitable. The northern
section, between Wittelrode, Lengefeld, and Sangerhausen, covers an area oY
approximately 6 million square meters, with a pure copper content of 65,000
tons. The southern section, between Sangerhausen, Niederroeblingen, and Ein-
zigen, covers an area of .19.5 million square meters and contains approxi-
mately 275,000 tons of pure copper; the ore is in veins 25-30 centimeters
thick.
The newly-opened deposits should be exploited promptly so that the out-
put may be included in the 1951 plan 'oecause, according to Director Duemke
(fnu) of the Mansfield Association of People-Owned Enterprises (VVB), the old
Mansfield copper mine, located 15 kilometers from Sangerhausen, has a life
expectancy of only 15 years at the present ra+,e of exploitation. It employs
16,'100 miners .
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