On 28-29 July 2015 Information Aarhus Centre together with Regional Department of State Inspection on Environmental and Technical Safety under the government of KR for the Aravan, Karasu and Nookat regions held monitoring on condition of objects of abandoned radium mine Too-Moyun.

The given monitoring attended the following participants:

• representatives of Kara-Tash and Mirmahmud rural districts;
• specialists of State Inspection on Environmental and Technical Safety (SIETS) for the Nookat region;
• representatives of Osh Territorial Administration for Environmental Protection and Forest Ecosystems Development
• representatives of Nookat regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies;
• Mass media;
• Independent experts on mine industry and mining supervision;
• Representatives of radiological department of Karasu regional disease prevention Centre;
• Representatives of State sanitary epidemiological supervision which coordinates activities of the services for the Osh oblast.

Exploration and mining of uranium ore was carried out in 1904. Since olden times local people mined copper here. Commercial mining of radium ore was organized in 1922. Reserves of deposit estimated 15-20 grams of radium, 60 tons of uranium, 120 tons of copper. The initial performance of the mine was 500 tons of ore per year. Mining of the deposit was carried out by underground methods and has been discontinued due to the abundance of underground water at a depth of 220 meters.

During the raid specialists conducted a visual survey and measurements of gamma-ray background in the territory of radium mine. As a result of the survey it was found that the mine Too-Moyun is located at the junction of administrative territories of Nookat and Aravan regions of Osh oblast, on the lands of Kara-Tash rural districts.

Measurements of gamma-ray background at the site yielded the following results:

• tunnel at the confluence of the river Kapchygai-Sai and brook Katta-Dangi – 6-7 micro-roentgen per hour;
• dumps of tunnel №2 (reference numbering) which is located at a distance of 100 meters north west of the animal shelters with herdsman lodge – 137-200 micro-roentgen per hour;
• on the site of the road from the animal shelters to tunnel – from 57 to 125 micro-roentgen per hour;
• at the outlet of the tunnel №2 – 74 micro-roentgen per hour;
• 15 meters north of the tunnel №2 – 180-230 micro-roentgen per hour;
• western part of the mine – 75-130 micro-roentgen per hour;
• south-western part – 150-230 micro-roentgen per hour;
• horizontal tunnel on the southern part of the slope –14-20 micro-roentgen per hour.