CH OLSAN MONAZITE MINES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500530013-0
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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?,orations of ttw, Ch`fia.Ieat, : onaz1t mines are c,M~,,ndur.tod at the fo33owang points
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a i dcjt,, are being e 1oitod on the penins ,t:L ,
P. Tic) nines operate directly under the 11ortir Koren I i xlGt of Industry and Co m,
rn rc0,, and are ?auperirised jeint1; by a S iet r awgi ?atier-advisor, a speck re-
p-ese.ntative of the North torea,a i73 wtry ens" , adruetry an Co morcoe, and a
s cir ropr? Bent tive of the North Korean cabinet. The Tongchaang. long area
m Lne>r, are inspected by Soviet. experts azt : - - uen to inter vats o when technical
i~ Istructjon. is given the n anagorw , In r td-p..'f 1951, a Soviet about 30 years of
a,,;a crossed in clv-USan clothing visited the Tonch3nng clong mines and conferred
, r. L thh the managor after inspectiA-l the nine, i str , . L ~ioan?3 The Ch061san mining
c, roru,tiozas are ra rdod as ez ren ly i. portant by t ha North Korean governnont,,
~a'rd, IIIN n orag in the coripany of Soviet zzriiriso rs 'cri,si? the mines on several
aboac,ions before June.s95OQ The nine ^ -vorc rt-. opoiicd for operation 10 May
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`]`h3 central staff at the Chlolsan mines Includes the following:
raq ST.jng-vu t-;'3ief manager
KI, Y ng4 aek (1'' i)' ), ' .ce ger
T 3 IEK N r ngAsu ('? 11)4%i ?) , chief of the I anistr7 of S oci.a.l. Security petal hment -
Yl Ch ang4,k (~ tom) mobilization chief
CH5 G 1)ng him. (-0108 I' , ), head of the Ch"olsan m ne labor Party organization
KIvI Tthwan ( special reprosontative of the North Korean cabinet
Thy staff is. divided ,i_nto fifteen sections planning.,'.. surrv ying, exploitation,
.ar ceaasirag, production, inspection, labor, suppl~,r, accounting civil engineering,
?1rinsport';ation and mining, construction, purchasing, staff, and party affairs.
ad tr s are snow] i s eel throw the local, people 3.; corm ti era home affairs branches u
:Ch v--,e subject to mobilization included men and women from 15 to 35 years of age,
on L:ir wor en with :roll babies being excmpt from mebi li z ation. In early 113Y when
J1: y min:;s were. re -opened, there were 16,,004) labarers a .dyed in the work,., In
!are Iat there wdre employed approximately 1900 ;;persons at the three Tongeh3ang-
doig rai3los under ~;anag KIN T is a3 J`r - ), aged 32 including 20 engineers,,,
.'50 office workers, and 30 drivers and guards I'~mager of Tongch 3 r n ong lime
No., 1. which employed 380 workers in late I-lay, vas KIN Song-tbk (f )
ag;d RO..J iranager of Lind lo., 2, which employed 600 workers, was IM4 1-cum
_ aged 3 i Manager of e 1no No. 3, which employed 820 workers, was
I'A:,K thb hun (L v) v aged 4. o In early Sly the laboring force was :b
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c r 3asr;d to 32,000 through mobilization of political prisoners and reactionary
e1.3mments in the population, of which group the forced laborers included 12,000
males aged 16 to 60, 4,000 females aged 15 to 55, and 4,000 unspecified laborers?
Ap,roldnately 10,000 of the total mobilized were free laborers, and there were
ab rut 600 on inee r and clerical personnel. (In mid Jute, 30,000 laborers., most
of then political prisoners, were employed in the Cb a olsan monazite minus at
Pa aigryang and Todagsu-Bong,, under KIM Toll -ha fT ?.Y ), aged 35, a native of
Ch 16U dan and an official of the Korean Labor Party,, It was rumored, among the
la )orors in raid June that at a labor union confaren::e it had been decided to
do ible< the labor force because of increased Sokr.et dear nds for the monazite
ors 1," )
Tw,,, ity laborers work in a group,, supervised by a foreman who is a member either
of the L bor Party or the Conirrnnist Yot:nng i :n,'s Association, .Engineers at
the mine receive 1200 to 2700 North Korean won per month; office workers reo
ce: ve 1000 to 120=0 won or slightly above the average wage for school teachers
in forth Korea. Free laborers are paid per kilogrwn of processed ore produced
accord. ng to the quality of the mine in which they .Ioz'ko tlorkers in a mine
ashore the ore Is abundant are paid 7.5 Borth Korean won per kilogram produced,
17 ,20 won in an a`drd ra o -one,, and in a poor m .no ,, 30.30 won. Conscripted
laborers, .rer .maid no cash, but al.:LL. laborers receive 90 grams of grain dnilyo
(The workers at the Tongchlang mines receive forty Io_rth Korean won. for each
ki: ogram of 7nona.zite ore produced')
In rddi,-Ju:cly equi rent at the nines included 250 motor pt cps, an average of
about ;30 per mine, sand -moving apparatus, agitating table separators, and
cy. inc~rical, bearinggttetivated crushers used as dressing machines for concontraa
tion and sopka.rati.on of the ore U Pour sets each of the separating and dressing
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ea atpnent were e:i; Ch n aryon '~' ran (1.24-43h 39-49) (XE /;1.72) and the Sin.B gok ~
CY axi l yong j, anc'.i Tongch l on tni. nes r and tr.are-_ each at the Kunch e ondor r, mines
&c th the Chan, i; ng and Tongch a on mine., had electric drying apparat Is k
a proci e anaiyu5..s machine,, type unknown, ::as at Chia onrxran,, the rail. ter
nrn i nal. from whi. Y is the monazite sand are shipped; and four ordinary analysis
zax: chi:;ne:; here ret other points o A machinery repair shop in Simch 8 on on was
or, uipped Tv.*ith throe lat!_os and one, taaehino used in. the relkdx of raining ape
p rates a Equ i pnannt at the Tongch l axng''dng mines in 'ate P included one
a : sayin r:_a(-h'.nej IC ten-aorsepo rer motors at rLine No. l fifteen of the
some type at In o D'o, 2, and 7 ten-horaepuwer and 8 :fifteen horsepower razors
ai i ane Nom 3.
Alter the monazite sand has boon extracted from the nines, by the pit.-mining
px ocess, it is -crrtshed and shipred to the Soviet Union without further processing.
'Me r.?ona.zito content of washed heavy sand fro.:: the Ch'olsan mines is 25 percent
b; volume. The monazite sand Irrc c uced at the Ton. sh"ana-long nines is a
px ?c cL,ate1.y 40 percent tionaazite and thorium0 ale rx ttrm* x production quota of
to washed ads for each inor? per da;,T at the Ch ? of pa: i mines is as follows: best
quality mine:. 7.5 kilograms; average mine, six kilo ems; poor mine, three !dlo-
g ms k (In. l to Juno at a labor conference it was decided to raise the daily
n ninem. production quota of raw cands from four to sir kilograms per man to moot ft:*
c),easod Soviet de wands,) Daily production of trashed sands at the Tongchla.ng-
dc3ng rdnes vas sac tons in late Zb.y, while the total produce on of all the
C teolsan to nes2 was 75 tons daily in mid-July. (Production of the Ch'olsan
ru:.nen in mid-June was 110 tons of washed sand dai.1 TQ )
8. The washed s a.nd is packed at the nines in a,o fif ty44cile gram boxes m : uring ap-
p?oxi.r a,te;ly 5)0 x '2_0 x 20 centimetersb, which boar idelatifying markings in the
Rae? Sian :langeage, Tie bones are collected by thirty "trucks of a unit of the
3or?th. i(o?rca.n l an istry of Transportation with handga re-s at Choyang .ong
(:24-4l,, 39-49) (XE ,x,408), and day and night arc hauled directly from the nines
to C : laryongrgarage station for shi_panent by rail to Sottlet Russia via Manchuria.
F`:.ve hundred tort: of sand are shipped weekly by freight car from Ch iaryon& gn an
(m-cars are enployce:d). The -production c;,uota for 1951 is 96 eigt.-car loads
poor auartex=. On the return trip from the station the trucks haul engine oil,,
w id food to the .nes a
9. The rain office of the Ch e olean nining ad-ministration was in a thre --story con.,
c:; cte building facing the Ch?aryong gtran railroad station, but because of United
11 i.tione air attacks it was moved in mid-July to a one-steer Korean house in
S, tsx~ ;ok (324: 42 ? 49) (XE 4508), from whore m? rt7_ra operations are controlled.
, :394 h acat?se of transportation difficulties,, 300 tons of washed sand are buried in, a.
m albe=rry forest one kilometer north of the. Ch 9 an: yo& ?ran railroad station, and
5)00 tons are buried. in an orcha.;-d one kilometer from the same station, exact
1:acation unknotm.
25X1 Al _ gormxont Formerly the North korean State Security Bureau,,
25X1Pp .Cor rant. Presumably including, he Tongch''angddong mines,, txhich from
a:11 indications are part of the Ch u olsan Mines and under the same adminis-
tration,,
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