Title | The natural wealth of the Soviet union and its exploitation |
Alternative Title | The natural wealth of the Soviet union and its exploitation: an address delivered before the extraordinary session of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet union held in Moscow, June 21 - 27, 1931 |
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Publisher | Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. |
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Date | 1932 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | HC335.G82 1932 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304510~S5 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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Transcript | million tons including 412 million bituminous, 40 million anthracite, the rest brown coal. (4) The Lena River region with stores of about 115 million tons. (5) The Sakhalin Island region. The main coalfield here extends along the western shore for a stretch of 200 km., a strip of land 10 to 15 km. wide. The coal veins date from the Tertiary and the chalk age. The veins contain long-flame coal, semi-anthracite and other varieties. The total supplies are estimated at 2 billion tons. Kazakstan Coal. A whole number of coal deposits are known to exist upon the vast steppes of Kazakstan, most remarkable among them being the Karaganda deposits, situated 185 km. southeast of the town of Akmolinsk and 30 km. distant from the Spassky copper smelting works. They are known to contain 12 layers of which 5 are already being worked. The coal yields a caking coke; the deposits are estimated, according to data of the Geological Bureau for 1926-27, at upwards of 4 billion tons. I am not going to take up time with other, smaller deposits. The fundamental deduction naturally to be made after a resume of our coal resources is that, while we possess huge potential reserves of various kinds of coal, we must admit that they have been subjected to only a cursory study and been prospected, from the industrial point of view, to a still smaller extent. In fact, prospecting does not keep pace with the actual working of the coal mines, especially now that increased demands for coal are being made. Consequently, it is our primary and urgent task to remove the aforesaid obstacles blocking the path to constructive progress. Oil Wealth of the U.S.S.R. There is hardly any need to dwell at length on the economic, and consequently also political, importance of 30 |