IRON AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN UKRAINE

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• Publication Date: March 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Iron and. Manganese Deposits in Ukraine
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One of the largest deposits of iron ore in the Ukraine is in the so-called
Krivoi Rog region; located in the area of the per part of the Ingulets
River Valley and the tributaries, Zovta and Saksahan. This region is 90
kilometers long and three to six kilometers wide. Usually; the single
ore layer is about 10 to 30 meters thick, but at times reaches 45 to 65
meters and in places as much as 100 to 150 meters. The ore contains
from 0.017 to 0.037% of phosphorous as compared to the finest iron ore
with a content of 0.005%. The deposits are found in metamorphosed
Precambrian schists about 300 to 350 meters under the surface; and are
estimated to be about 1.5 billion tons. In addition to these deposits
there is an estimated 100 Mallon tons of quartzitic ore in the region
with an iron composition of about 33%.
2. The southern part of the so-called Kurek Magnetic Anomaly is located in
the northern portion of the Ukraine. Here ale found accumulations of
magnetite. The iron deposits are located about 200 to 600 meters below
the surface. The known reserves of ferruginous quartzites in the area
are estimated to be about 200 billion tons. A very similar magnetic
anomaly was discovered just before 1940 in western Ukraine near Halych
and Gorodok. Future geologieal explorationa will have to be made to
determine the extent of these deposits.
Iron deposits are found on the Kerch Peninsula in an areaof about 2,400
square meters. Extraction here., is very easy because the layers are but .
four meters or so under the surface. The beds are not as thick as those
in the Krivoi Rog region, reaching a thickness of about eight to 12 meters,
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nor is the percentage value of the ore as high, being about 4094 iron. The ore
is brittle and hasabout one percent of phosphorous present. A small percent-
age of vanadium is present and is extracted. It has been found that there
is about 1.6% of sulphur and about 0.05% of arsenic, the latter causing a
weakness in iron that makes it worthless for certain products. It is also
an expensive process to remove the arsenic from the iron. The iron ore
reserves in the Kerch Peninsula area are estimated to be about 2.7 billion
tons.
Quartzitic deposits with a high percentage of iron have been located in the
areas about Kremenchug, Orikhova, Korsak-Mohyla and Slavgorod. The total
deposits and indications of new areas make the Ukraine one of the richest
iron ore regions in the world.
The richest deposits of manganese in the Ukraine are found in an area about
150 kilometers square located on the right bank of the lower part of the
Dnepr River around Nikopol;(one of the largest in the world.) The reserves
areestimated to be about 450 million tons, from which 190 million tons of pure
manganese can be extracted. The beds average 6.5 feet in thickness and are
found at a depth of from 50 to 250 feet under the surface. The ore yields
about 35 to 50% of manganese and contains oolitic earthy lenses and nodules
of pyrolusite, wad, polianite, manganite and iron =ides. Other deposits
awe found near Khoshchevatka in the vicinity of Haisyn on the left bank of
the Bob River, (estimatedat about eight million tons.)
Prior to World War II deposits of manganese vee found in the Carpathian
Mountains near the springs of the White and Black Cheremosh Rivers. These
deposits were estimated to be about 10 million tons, however, because of
the difficult terrain, the field is not exploited. There are additional
deposits located on the north slopes of the Caubasus Mountains in the basin
of the Bile. and Labe Rivers in the vicinity of Labynska,(estimated to be
between 34 and 38 million tons.)
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