MINING INSTALLATION NEAR CHAGYL, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: September 1, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
MINING INSTALLATION NEAR
CHAGYL, USSR
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CHAGYL, USSR
MINING INSTALLATION NEAR
A mining installation (40-42N 55-26E)* is
located approximately 8 nautical miles (nm)
south of Chagyl and 120 nm east-northeast of
Krasnovodsk, USSR (Figure 1). The installation
consists of an open-pit mine and several asso-
ciated support facilities (Figure 2). When it was
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installation appeared to have been in operation
for some years. No milling or other processing
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FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF MINING INSTALLATION NEAR
CHAGYL, USSR.
facility is observed at the installation. However,
two waste dumps are visible, and sifting and
sorting of ore on a small-scale is in progress.
There is little indication of the kind of ore
being mined. The absence of elaborate milling
and processing plants tends to rule out the possi-
bility that uranium ore is mined at this installa-
tion. The absence of a headgear or traveling
crane at the mine pit indicates a limited mining
operation. The age of the mine and the perma-
nency of the housing tend to indicate that the in-
stallation is associated with the miningofapre-
cious metal.
Description of Facilities. The installation's
facilities are shown on Figure 2.
The mine is an oval-shaped pit measuring
1, 000 by 700 feet. The mine appears to be deep,
but no traveling crane or headgear facility for
removing the ore from the pit was observed. A
hoisting facility is probably located in a build-
ing at the east end of the mine and hoisting
lines probably run against the pit wall. A waste
dump, measuring 800 by 800 feet, adjoins the
pit on the west. A second waste dump, measur-
ing 800 by 400 feet, is located east of the pit.
An operations area contains approximately
five buildings which average 100 by 50 feet. The
area shows no indication of milling operations.
There is photographic evidence that sifting and
sorting of earth is performed on a limited scale
in this area. To the north of the operations area
is a possible maintenance area which contains
several small workshop-type buildings.
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. A storage area is located south of the mine
pit on the good, oil-treated road to Krasnovodsk.
The area contains six warehouse-type buildings,
averaging 200 by 80 feet in size, and several
smaller buildings.
A probable explosives storage area is at an
isolated location north-northwest of the mine pit.
This area is fenced and measures approximately
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350 feet square. It contains a storage building
(280 by 50 feet) and a small support building.
The housing area contains approximately 24
single-unit family-type dwellings, 31 barracks-
type buildings (200 by 40 feet), a U-shaped admin-
istration-type building, an unidentified building
(200 by 90 feet), and numerous small support
buildings.
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