ECU Silver Mining Inc. (TSX: ECU) has received a “Licencia Ambiental Unica” (“LAU”), which is effectively a unified environmental license.
The LAU replaces all existing environmental permits for the operations at Velardena and provides the necessary license for expansion of the current sulphide operations by adding a 1500 tonnes per day (“tpd”) mill as well as the continuation of all current operations.
The granting of the LAU is a very important accomplishment in the Company’s work to expand its mining operations that will eventually encompass a new 1500 tpd mill for processing sulphides. The scoping study which will outline, on a preliminary basis, the economics for the larger milling operations, will be delivered by the end of the first quarter of 2010 and is the first phase of the Company’s future plan to grow to 5000 tpd.
