INFORMATION ON OBJECT 90 WISMUT AG RONNEBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R006000050003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 7, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

ULN I AL trflELLIGENCE AGENC . REPORT
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1. The follouing numbers cf railroad care were loaded with it-en-ten ore at the
Ronneburg railroad statYon on the days mentioned:
Date Number of cars loaded
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20 April
37
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27
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3 May
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This invormatinh
is complete for the days. listed,
IThe ore was loaded on 20-ton flat cars fitted with siderailks.
The ore was trucked to the railroad station on 3-ton ZIS dump trucks, the
cargo of 4 or 5 trucks being loaded on one flatcar. The ore was dispatched
to Zwickau. An ore washing plant is located near Zwickau.
2. Two loading ramps mere used for ore loading operations near Ronneburg. One
of them was at the freight station, the other one had been newly constructed
east of the Renneburg-Faitzdorf highway, about 700 meters east of the
Ronneburg freight station. Ore bunkers are not available. The ore is not
sozted at the Lonaehurg railrZ2D:atatione The grade of the ore shippAA ic
previounly determined by means of Geiger counters dt the ore mines. 50X1-HUM
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the work force of the uranium ore mines in the Ronneburg area is scheduled
to be reduced from 1,000 to 350 men. Workers have already been laid off or
transferred. New mines 'were being opened and built in the Ruee,.ersdorf-
Linda- Vogelsang-- Brauniewalde area. The pits built at nbjekt" Schnirehau
have ehafte 30, 60; 90, and 120 metern.doep. The ore lodes e?etend as far as
Ronneturg. Tho exoloited ore beds are not filled in with walto rock, a
negligence which frequently causes the surfcce of the earth above the:3e
cavities to cave in. In this way, a deproesion 10 to 20 meters deep formed
in the vicinitr of Schnirchau.
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