THE RUDNIK DREN CHROME ORE MINE IN BESVICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200110007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT The hudnik Dren Chrome, Ore Mine in
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J.._ The Ru1ra.ik Dren chrome are mine is located one kilometer west of Bes^ i .
V;SUage, near Dew= Xaplja in Macedonia. Large beds of chrome ore and
s?u ph,ur were round after the war in this area. and the present work
consists of digging the principal galleries.,
2 The mine employs approximately 200 workers, of which are political,
prisoners sentenced to forced labor. The work is carried out in three
shifts. Engineer 7M1i.ha,11 Stoss, a German prisoner of war, and his
assistant. T :h ,il Berta, as Ge .an born in Yugoslavia,, are in charge of
..he technical work,,
The rain. gall er7 was completed ir$i.fVtheJ iz^?` ng ofs pgl950.. fit( ~iyn 954 meters
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it ~`ace:, Three trr.?ecks for thnines ,_.~ :-m Al ca t~'> have 14een c--,,-,r tt, -2c` ed
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to the ?''hrommte o:3?e beds and tFZ.w left, to sniobur bete, Stos<
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wo~;lo be need. d in ecrh p ' T e.r t reach the '.%rarnc- C`'{ an k baded
"A T~0.wo eonpresso'::, '.ekaac 'in. s axe utii 'zed in .., a ..,'}. .. Oneee driven- by i}arj%t-'GY,', rs
came from the --Yee *2 :one and is designer. to generate power for four
pressure drills. It broke down in the spring of 1950 and vas sent to
akoplje for r epair. The other co?'IlI7ressor,, d:'.--iven h r ,s eolinea enerates
pressure for .fiwo drills. The e;fyria .te used until early 1950 was of a
red color and of `,aedlsh orig:t rb; later, a. white dynarn~ite of less rlrustruc? wive
power was usual;. The mine had one water tmrano constantly in use,, A hydro-
electric power station is located on the Bosa River aho at 500 m& r s to
the north of the Dren mine. About one thousand maters south of the nine are
vacant mUite y barracks.
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