GOLD DEPOSITS

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• Publication Date: July 23, 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY ' .USSR
SUBJECT Gold Deposits
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1. It is impossible to find data or statistical information in Soviet geologic
literature on the total reserves of gold in the USSR. In 1947, Polish
geologist-economist, A Barcinski, stated that there were 10 million kilograms
of gold in the Soviet geologic reserve as of 1938. Additional prospecting
and new discoveries have probably raise& the available reserve above this
figure.
2. The following comparative table shows Soviet gold production as estimated by
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1914
1920
1923
1930
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1943
1950
1951
sources:
Official Soviet Data
Kg
Polish Data
Kg
French Data
Kg
US Minerals Yearbook
Fine Ounces
43,000
1,714
86,000
43,000
1,714
44,587
82,847
132,572
169,845
204,440
213,900
180,000
140,000
8,000,000
9,000,000
1953
300,000
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3. Geologic literature lists more than 30 important gold deposits in the USSR.
The main gad placers and IOdes are in Siberia, the Ural Mountains, the
Kazakh SSR, and. the .Far East. Other deposits are found in the Middle Asian
areas and the tOrth Caucasus, and some small gold deposits have been
discovered in the ,irchangel area and the Donets Basin in, the Ukraine.
4. The Ural gold fields lie along the eastern slope of the Ural Mountain3,
in the Bashkir A8SA,,-end in the eastern end of the middle Volga country,
Srednye Volshskyi 'Stay. This is the oldest gold producing region in the
USSR but the deposits are being exhausted and have been losing their
economic importance for-the piSt'20'years. The most important deposits
are located at:
a. Berezovski (56 55N - 60 49E), 14 kilometers northeast of
Sverdlovsk (56 50N - 6o 38E) -- 70 square kilometers of gold
bearing sulfide ore forming the center of the Ural gold industry.
b. Nadezhdinsk (59 36r 60 35E), Bogoslav region.
J0. NishnY Turins' 45117 (58 03N 63 40E).
id. Nishny Tagilsk. aig (57 54N 60 00E).
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le. Nask45729N
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Kochkar (54 27N: 66 48E). an area of approximately .900 square
kilometers south of ,Chelyabinsk (55 61. 24-x),
Zlatoust (55.10K 59, 40E).
ih. Miass (55 02N - 60 06E).
i. Bayms,k-Taris lykovo (52 36N. -6 58 2.22) the Goulainske Rudnik
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extracting gold from suJ.fid ores,.
Blyava colver' factory ,. ., ,
Blyava. (51,..24N 1- 57 )4,5E):.batueen Orsk ,(51..1011 ..-L58.,344 ? and,
Khalilovo (51 24N - 58 09E) -- 25,000 kilograms of copper and
1,300 kilograms of gold extracted per year from copper ores at
the
k Deposits on the Goumbeyka River gig exid at the
sources, of the. Pechora River (67 40N.- 52 3Q)..
5. The gad fields of the Kazakh SSR, are located at:
41. Dzhetygara.(52 11N - 61 12E) oa,the Tobol River in the
Aktyubinsk, Oblast.
The Karaganda (49 50N 73 10E) region.
Te okchetavskiy (50 07N - 67 0E) region -- the Stepnyak and Bestyoube
mines are important deposits with ores of 15 g/t
of gold in considerable reserve,
d. The Kalbinskiy Khrebet (49 10N - 83 00E) and the Sayanskiy Khrebet
(52 06N - 90 36E) in the Irtysh River (47 52N - 84 16E) Basin.
The deposit is called the Maykain.
e. The Altai Mountains -- production from poly-metallic sulfide
ores at Bidder (Leninog9rsk 50 22N -83 32E), Zyranovsk (49 34N - 84 20E),
and Ust-Kamenogorsk (4958N - 82 40E).
c.
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The gol& fields of.. the? Middle -Asiabio area in the.-Tadzhik-.SSR are
located on tributaries, Of the -Pyandzh River (37 06L.- 68 2a), a,?
source of the Amu Darya -River 43: 14I -5 01110.- Geologic surveya,
have dieWtkired other-lode.s attSaukrsaw. Lpossibly Saksuar 40 05N, 65 52e in the
northwest PaMir Mountaina ,on the Sources of ,the. Rivet' (39 3.5N
7123E).
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The gold, fields of vast Siberia, we located, on the -slopes of the
Salairsky. Kryath (54, 12N. --. 853). of the Kuznetsk Ala-Tau (54 40N, ?
88 20E), north of,Lake Ozer?, (5I...32N - 87. 1M) on, ,.,ne rivers Tom
(56 50N - 84- 27E), chulyza (.57.45N ,- 83 -55E), and Abakan (53,4.511 - 91 30E).
Go)d. placers and lodes are at:
Kommunat :(54 - 89 164.
b. Noussso-Sazalinsk,Idsbly Novokayalinsk- 45 50N, 62 10
Balyk- :,(53 22E.
:d. Kyzas(52 22;- 80,20E)x4, ).,.
e.: Berikulskiy -(55,
f ? 126enittrO'iNf - 87 40E).
8. The ni?. Siberian deposi;ts are?, ?
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a. On the,Ousa 7nossib1y Ous 60,30N, 62 27E1, and Tyba 5ossib1y Tyb'yu.- 60 30N,
24/Rivers, SPUrPPP. of the Yenisey River.
b. In the Tomsk Ritter. Valley pf the Artemovsk,
(54, 24N - 93 26E) region --- the Artemovsky Rudnik is the most
,important- gold:4posit . Siberia,. -
c. In the 11.,:nisei Taiga between the lower end of the Angara River
t56.0W--:.101 48EI.and Podkemennaya Tungraka (61 361sL - 90 09E).
. The Pit Bier(58 62E) diNfides. the Yenisei Taiga into
narth: and.%eouth'.'gola;produc,ing, regions:0. Important, deposits -are
? (I) 0.1eSovetskiy Rudpik 51)-51 40N, 53 30Eo, t(Vo. 52 i070, 51 45e
(2) Eldorado (60 05N 93 18E
(3) Ayakht (59 - 94 E.
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?ap, the upp:-.:,..***Y1 .isel area-placers may lie along the Kan
River (56 30N - 98 48E) in the Krasnoyarsk (56 02N - 92 118E)
.region.
, e. Near. ,Biryousinsk 51c,.7 (52 N- 95 )
9. East Siberian dispOsit,s axe.located:
a.In the Lena. River Basin around Bodixtbo :(..57 522 - JiA. 12Z)
The Bodaybo_ mines are world important _and have, been
uoing for nearly one hundred years. They extend along
the Vitim River Valley (59 27N - 112 38E), a right tributary
a itte...Lena. This region may have large reserves for new
Tlacers have beer discovered. in the Kalarskiy iCbrebet
,(56 20E,- 118 00E) , at the Central and 11 October mines.
The Lena ore contains.0.24 kilograms of gold per cubic
meter of sand.
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b. Bast ?a Lake Baikal 'is)4 the atecC,known Zabaikalye, on
:the Argun (52 18N- 00E) , Gown (51. 43.1ci 7 115 117E And.
Shilka :(53 20N 121 26E).:Ri1Ter :Basins. -Blexer,s?and,lodes
are:fount here, especia.,117? in the. NerOhinsk (51 58N - 165
? rein, -and., in, the. area around. Balei (51 36N_ 116 38E):.
c. In the Buryat-Mongol ASSR northeast of the Barguzinsky
? Taiga ( ' ;J.1- -on the Vitim River (59,27N -
Iv 38E)? The, taiga. has not been, thoroughly prpspected
and it is possible, thatcneif gold,deposits will be,
discovered -hei.e. The district supplies 90% of all the gold
Produced th.the Buryat-Mongol Republic. In recent years
Soviet geologists have apparently taken great interest in
the DaraSuo (52 28N - 145 34.0E) deposits of poly-metallic
high gold content ore.
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d. In the Yakutskaya ASSR. The most important deposits are
- in the. Aldar regi .(58 31E - 125 24E) in the system of
the Bolphoy (55 - 129 45E), Malyihomgera ( )
and'TomMot T - ) Rivers. The deposits are
500 kilometers from Yakutsk (62 OON - 129 45E) and 800
? - kilometers- Ornol.the.Rojakhldi40,rAmur Railroad Station (
The gold bearing area coiasists of more than 17 thousand square
arid the 41,j-endue is called CliOkeOMMstnyi
It is approximately , 26 hundred,
?Jillometera frOmLIrkatak-(52 -16N - 104, 20E) . The ore
contains 0.6 kilograms of gold per cubic meter of sena
Other gold deposits are:
(1) In the Olekma i'4&-ir (60 20N - 120 38E) Basin.
R4ver (64 . ..N .
(3) Near the source of the Kolyma Rivend near Srednikan
;!:%.162.240N? a52,25E):,-VerUhne,Kolyms2& (64 4511 TE-'150 46s)
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(4 In the C...zr-Zsk4i- wuniaam. 51..7 (66 N 145
10. The gold deposits of the Far East (Dalnyi Vostok) are located:
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a. In the Ze -,River (50 15N - 127 56E) systep and on the
Zeyes trautai the Selemdzha (51 42N - 128 53E).
b. .14 *be, mouth i)f. the Amut Ritter at. Lake Orel (53 30N - 139 42E)
and Lake Udyl (52 06N - 139 48E).
c. At:the terbinskiyMine .01the-Amison-River-152.:56a - 139 38E).
d. In the Okhotsk (59 231'1 - 143 18E),region.
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On Kamchatka (56 OON - 160 OQE) and Chukotskiy (66 00N - 174 00W)
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f. tia?e ikaatad Askado (42 4.5N - 132 -2 n the Primnrski
Krai -(45 CON
li the IR:astern. part of the Far East at Mogocha- (53 45N -11.9 46E).
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h. On Sakhalin (51 CON - 143 00E).
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11. The 4old..depogitas the,'.gttrope4.44 -areas of the USS3 are
a. ,The..',ArOhangel of. Little-j.economiO..importanoli4...
b. The Ukraine-Northeast of Mariupol (47 05N - 37 36E) at
.the'Saulovka, Mine, 1. This, szea.-has produced only .
kilograms of gold since 38894 ,? It .was closed, before
.World War I and...invettigate:41 ;again. in' 1933,but .it was
decicled .that the...reserxres.;we,re.., too small< for profitable
exploitation?
c. The North Caucasus gold-bat heen found- in the
Chorokh .36N 41:3%) the Terek River
(41.3 42i.??-46- 30EL .and the Malaya Labe River (44 12N, 40 467)
Valleys in conglomerates. The reserves are very small.
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