URANIUM ORE MINING IN THE JACHYMOV AREA

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• Document Page Count: 45
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIBN AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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DATE DISTR. 5 Aprila955
SUBJECT Uranium Ore Mining in the Jachymov Area I NO.OFPAGES 6
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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THIS DOCUIIIITIT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. VITEN, THE WEARING OF TITLE ID, SECTIONS 783
AND 784, OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AUENDED. ITS TRANSOISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS contemn; TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAY/ THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS F01111 IS PROHIBITED.
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?2:: Workers gate
3 Watch towers and dual barbed wire fence
4 One-story wooden binding, guard house and worker's check point
5 Ones-story wooden building, PX
6 Ona.story wooden building, issue of tools and lamps
? 7 One?story wooden building, 30 x 15 meters
Office of Engineer Erejca (fnu) Czech chief of the mine
b, Office of the work shop
e, Workers" council
d. ESC
Office of the chief of the ep1oeives department
.Offices for foremen ?
SCM conference room
. Workers' cloak room
oncrete basin for cooling water
9 One-story brick building, 'workshops
10 Transformer station
11 Explosives dump
12 One-story brick building 20 It 15 meters, machine house
Hoist frame with collector station on top
ing station for nAn, and V' materi
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? brick building, erected in 1952, oonpreasor station
6 One-story brick building, issue of lamps
7 Two...story. brick building
a, Workers' check point
b. Dentists
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Offices for foriitieii
Conferenoe room
?go PbanC0 department
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i. Workers" 'cloak rooms
?The building also haouted the work
?of the geological department
Pne-story brick building with vamp
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a. Mechanical 'reparation of the so. fled Grelinso samples
e...stc:try brick building, workshops of the main storage department
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10. Threestort villa, lnspeotorate IX
11. Main entrance gallery to the nine* The, ?ery-house and tho.?
hoisting installation is underground, about km from the entrance
Of the gallery.
12 Three.ostdrybriok building
a. Section oodupied by w?rkerat council arid, the Oemmuoist party'
organization
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b, Ore sorting plant
Workshop
Pumping installatio
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ve-Stoiby brick building, aid washing plant
13a Two long drying ?VDUS
13b Boiler roam
13c Two ;-story steam dtying ns
14 Ore dump
15 Single-storybrick and wooden building
as, Soviet office of .O1K
Offices of the controllers and chiefs of workshops
Storage of replacement parW for ore sorting stations
office
Main ore sorting station
16 Maim gate
17 One-story wooden building, guard house and workerls'check room
18 Three new single-story wooden buildings, quartering facilities for
about 200 STB personnel
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19 SZdli td.tb three saw
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20 ?OnsiAstory brick hoUse completed in late 1952, new V/
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Woaden chute with side walls from the old- to the new ore.aortiEig
station. The chute comps the ore crushed by ball crushers. The
ore is mixed -with water
22 Hain entrvince gallery to the Tomas Mill ? It is boated on a
mountain about 800 meters higa,
23 ?ore sorting plant or the Tomas Mine
24 $ingle-story wooden building
25 Ingle-story wooden building* tcra
26 Geiger rnters
ore
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d *ITII and grade-II ore from the Bratrstvi Nile and ore lump
of um radioactivity shipped to the plant from other mines.:
*Smolkae and ItAit'material were sorted at the wrting plant and shipped
from there to the OTI., 0rade-sAti and #0* material was stored on one
heap, This ore is of medium radioactivity and consisto of lumps with
a diameter of up to 15 am. The radioactivity of the ere was tested
by mea of a "collector', at the dump. From 800 to 900 kg of ore
were leaded on cars which were hoisted to the third floor of the
ore dressing plant.
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2 Sorting tab es with holes, 9 am diameter
Heap IX sorted ore
?6 Conveyor belt
5 loirst =welshing unit, which
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sheer the ore to lumps, 5 to 6 cia in
Rotary cone-shaped irons with three
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7 low of oreehed ore which is mixed with water
(mond ore crushing unit which ?rushee the ore lumps wM.ch did
net pass through the holes of the ratatable sieve into lumps
in diameter
nd rotary aim fitted, with holes of i.ormLzec
whir* collects the ore that palmed through the sieve
which crushes the ore that did not
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I boxes collecting the or d Ore
Cr1113tAng unit
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: box eCeitng the orushed ore from boxee rv. and V.
12 Shipping point for ore packed in boxee
12* ore which did not have the pr radioactivity
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Wcws: gear coe7or, CO e material wa dumpod onto the
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6 Wocden chute foz. fine..crushed ore
1? New orn washing plant, briok and wooden
x 80 peters
18 Crushing plant proceing the ore from
19 Ors testing station for or Om box VI
20 Ore washing fad litiee for fine-cruehed ore trcm box VZ
21 Metal drums for radio active material (concentrate i)'
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1 Route of arriving or
2 Giger counters with which the ore is classified
TO the dump
Rout or trucks ?rryLng the ore to the OTK VAtmanav
Witt Oreof low rad oactiv s designated "grade-In material,
ore of medium radioactivity gradeo.II material, and ore of
high radicactivitr grade-111 material. Grade I, II, and
111-imateria1 was shipped it balk and not packed in boxes or
containers.
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Ore Washing ble
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1 Route of ore arriving from the old ore washing plant
2 Injection of water
3 Pfrection in uhich the washing table may be movod
4 r lbw of radioactive material
5 now of barren material
6 Oro lumps Of excessive sine
7 Plow of' barren material
- Container for coarse ter
9 'Radioactive material sent to the teat station of the old ore
dressing plant
10 Plou..off of water
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