DISCOVERY OF BERYL MINES/CEMENT PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500490177-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 177
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COIZFIA&~1rPIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ?GENCY
IMF?I$RIII~TIOI'I i3~PORT 25X1A
COUNTRY Brazil
SUBJECT Discovery of Beryl Minee~Cement Production
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1. "Now instal7.ntiono at the Bao Joao del Roi minor, Minas (~eraie Btato, Brazil,
will ineroase tho production o~' gold considerably. The production of four thousnnd
kg annually will bo doubled ae soon ao the now machinory ie mountod.
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"A new plant for the iadustrializatrion oP monazite sand found in Draztl xas
inaugurated on ~ in 9a`b Paulo, by the President of Draz21.
3? "`~~svoral important mines of beryl were recently diacovorod not iar from the
piece called ~.tamb6, State of Bahia[ About 300 metric tons of thin mi>tieral have
already been exported to the US within the pnet Pour months. In thin satre period
another 300 metric tons were etockoQ in the mines. Beryl crystals are commonly
very largo in size. The largest found weighed two motric tone. The same mines
are also rroduciag largo nmounte of columbite, tiVhich is being shipped tm: he ZJp. .?
~+. "According to the Agriculture Department, Brazil produced 1n ~ 2,040,595 metric
tone o2' cement, thud distributed:
R.?. de Janeiro State
702,485
9db Paulo State
684,135
Minas derail Btate
268,948
Pernambuco Btate
132,923
' Parahyba State
103,130...
Rio arando do Bul Btate
60,428
Bahia Btato
53,385
Parana^ 5tata
1'7, 839
Esptrlto Santo Ste.te
17,316
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"Brazil i.mportad, recently, crow the Huachipato steel plant, Chile, 500 motric tons
02 steel.. Another 500 tone from the same plant will arrive in Erazil within ono
month."
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