OPEN-PIT MINE NEAR NIZHNYAYA TURA, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: July 1, 1961
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NEAR NIZHNYAYA TURA, USSR
A deep pit (approximately 58-27N 59-39E), 11.4 nautical miles (nm)
southwest of Nizhnyaya Tura, USSR, was studied to determine whether a
relationship exists between the pit and the Nizhnyaya Tura Atomic Energy
Installation, located approximately 4 nm to the north. It was concluded
that the pit is an open-pit mine and has no relationship with the atomic
energy installation.
The mine was in operation at the time of photograph The
size of the mine pit (approximately 770 feet in diameter and an es .mated
80 feet deep), the large amount of tailings, and the height of the vegeta-
tion on the sides of the piles of tailings indicate that the mine has been in
operation for a -considerable length of time.
Facilities at the mine include two secured explosive storage areas
and two areas of buildings. An area on the east side of the pit has 13
large buildings of various sizes and numerous smaller buildings. Six
small buildings are located in another area on the west side of the pit.
Roads lead in three directions from the pit. The most traveled
road leads southeastward toward Verkhnyaya Tura. and joins the Kushva/
Nizhnyaya Tura road. Another less-traveled road leads northward
toward the Nizhnyaya Tura Atomic Energy Installation. A minor road
leads westward to the road system in that direction.
The kind of ore mined at the open pit cannot be determined from
the photography; however, iron is the principal ore mined in the general
area. An iron and steel works is located at Kushva, approximately 1I nm
south-southeast of the open pit. Copper and bauxite are also reportedly
mined in the area.
If the ore from the mine is iron, it is probably trucked by road to the
iron and steel works at Kushva. If it is another ore, it is probably
trucked by the same road to the railroad on the east side of Verkhnyaya
Tura.
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MAPS OR CHARTS
AMS. Series N501, Sheet No 40-6, 1st ed, Aug 58, scale 1:250, 000 (U)
ACIC. US Target Complex Chart, Series 100
Ist ed, Mar 56, scale 1:100, 000 (C)
DOCUMENTS
CIA. IR. Files, 1955-60 (S)
REQUIREMENTS
CIA. ORR/E/R-1/61
Navy. DNI415-61
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OPEN-PIT MINE
NEAR
NIZHNYAYA TURA, USSR
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PIC/JB-28/61
July 1961
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