A mixture of base metals and gold prospects in New South Wales and uranium and gold in central Asia is the formula that newly-listed Monaro Mining NL hopes will lead to mining success. But a cloud of old-fashioned Soviet secrecy is thwarting its attempts to fast-track operations on the Asian continent. With the focus on the Kyrgyz Republic, nestled between China, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan and Kazakhstan, the company has a number of prospective uranium sites, holding the largest package of 100 percent-owned uranium exploration licences in the Republic, with some significant historical mining sites. The company has been endeavouring to identify and locate historical exploration reports from the archives distributed around various centres in the FSU countries -- but an element of secrecy surrounds reports and key data held outside the Republic. The initial focus is on the Aramsu uranium licence, with a Cl + C2 resource containing 326,000 tonnes of uranium metal at a grade of 0.167 percent uranium oxide.
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