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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00346A000100220004-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 24, 1958
• Content Type: MISC

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Total production of nickel in the Bloc is estimated at 54,148
metric tons in 1957, of which 54,000 tons were produced in the USSR
and 148 tons in East Germany. T . , t Z r~ p -,4 1 S-ji / / c- " -. . r 1
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In the USSR, nickel refineries areAas follows:
Severo e ' Metallurgical Combine, Monchegorsk; the Yuzhuralnikel
Combine, Orsk; the Norilsk Metallurgical Combine, Norilsk; and the
Ufaley Combine, Ufaley
'in East Germany, refined nickel is produced at the Aue Nickel
Plant at Aue.
4. Molybdenum -
Total Bloc production of molybdenum in 1957 is estimated at
7,400 metric tons (metallic equivalent of 65% molybdenite concen-
trates), including 5,800 tons produced in the USSR and 1,600 tons
in China. The concentrates produced in China are exported to the
USSR. The USSR estimate may be as much as 25% high. (r?c. I-,,
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- In the USSR, the principal sources of
molyb enum are at Tyrny-Auz, where ore is mined and concentrated and
at Vostochno Kounradskiy, where copper molybdenum ore is mined for
processing at Balkhash. The Chelyabinsk Ferroalloys Plant at
Chelyabinsk is the principal producer of ferromolybdenum.
In China, almost all production of molybdenum concentrates is at
Yang-Chia-Chang-Tzu in Liaoning Province.
6. Carbonyl Powder -
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Date: on production, of carbonyl nickel powder are not available
for any of the Bloc countries. The USSR has ample supplies of
nickel and has the technological capability of producing sufficient
carbonyl powder to supply the relatively small quantities that
are required, In the USSR, carbonyl nickel powder is produced at
Krasnoyarsk and possibly at Monchegorsk.
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Sino-3ovIet Bloc production and imports of mercury in flasks of
of 76 pounds,
as follows: Production -- USSR, 27,Q00;
Communist China, 25,000; tea, 200; Czechoslovakia, 800; Tota 1
production, 53,000 flasks. Imports from the Free World: from Italy
and Yugoslavia, 1,500 to 1,500. Exports to the Free World: negligible.
Total new supply of mercury tx in the Sino.Soviet Bloc during 1957
,41-e 4X00 A-V 1 1-11,
estimated, therefore, at 51,500 57,500 flasks.
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to on Sino-Soviet Bloc production -ad sonva 4-1
of columbium and tantalum are not available. The Bloc is known, however,
to have extensive deposits of columbium and tantalum bearing minerals.
4__-Inasmuch as no attempts have beem made to procure columbium
from the Free World since 1955, it is presumed that the Bloc is
self-sufficient in this material. Tantalum, however, appears to
be in short supply, particularly in East Germany. Small quantities
of tantalum metal have been ru smuggled into East German intermittently
at least since 1953. * Since mid-1957 reports of such smuggling have
increased. Available evidence indiates that at least 100 mzaxU pounds
of tantalum metal have been exported is to East Germany from West
Germany via Sweden and Switzerlandx in 1957,[.
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