ECONOMIC INFORMATION: COMMUNISTS DESTROY YANGCHIACHANGTZU MOLYBDENUM MINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001100020002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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1. The mo2ybdent:m mine in the Yangehiacha,'tzi mining area approximately ten miles
northwest of Chinhsihsien (120-i0, 40-4,'- ~ . destroyed by the Comr~,:nnsts after
they captured it on 16 September,
About three-fourths of the 6,000 tons of eqt ' pment was removed and the res., was
presumably destroyed. Approxim,.tely 90 of he buildings was burned.
2 The chief engineer, PEI Ch'ui fenC-, five asL scants and some thirty or forty
workers were taken c aptive.. A Japanese eng:I ser was killed,
Note: This information was, reporte, in the local press.,
irk to : It is not clear wh('. her th, .hole report was confirmed or
merely the capture of the mine and .estrue. on of equipment., There are no
reports on the amount of produc ior:.. of thj. mine since the end of the war.,)
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