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Portable conveyors, part of the UNKRA imported equipment, screening and handling coal to stock piles. Later these belts will be used to handle the raw ores.

Among the modern machine shop equipment is a shearing machine already being used for metal construction work.

River dredge Mapo Ho provided by UNKRA.

Old and new at Changhang Smelter. Old plant and new equipment are being dovetailed into a dramatic rehabilitation program at Changhang, Korea’s only smelter and ore refinery. The modernization of the smelter, which was undertaken by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) at a cost of over $1,550,000 in order to meet the increasing output of the metal mines and to assure for Korea more favorable foreign exchange for her metal exports, is now in full swing. Every effort is being made to utilize the existing resources of the smelter to supplement the new equipment that is being brought in.

Workmen measuring out sheet metal for new construction work. All necessary casting work is being done at the foundry.

A Korean metallurgist adjusting a polishing machine used in preparation of polished surfaces of opaque minerals for examination in the newly set up ore dressing laboratory at the smelter.

A general view of blowers installed in the newly constructed power house.

The main smelter building at Changhang. The entire upper structure of this building has been newly constructed to house the forty-five foot span crane shown above. This crane can lift two ladles each containing 20 tons of molten metal.

Casting copper anodes. This is one of the processes that will be modernized.