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To: marcos who wrote (58855)4/20/2008 5:30:30 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78422
 
I will guarantee you that exploitation means digging the pit and preparing the mine, and up to feasibility stage you are in exploration. So no cigar. But nice try.

Also the date on the law is not a valid quibble as it is still in force but may be updated from time to time. Unless they issue a new act, the date does not change. Also it is from the official government website mineriaecuador.com where you can read the Sp version.

Art. 18.- Fases de la actividad minera. Para efectos de aplicación de esta Ley, las fases de la actividad minera se clasifican en:

a) Prospección, que consiste en la búsqueda de indicios de nuevas áreas mineralizadas;

b) Exploración, que consiste en la determinación del tamaño y forma del yacimiento, así como del contenido y calidad del mineral en el existente. La exploración incluye también la evaluación económica del yacimiento;

c) Explotación, que comprende el conjunto de operaciones, trabajos y labores mineras destinadas a la preparación y desarrollo del yacimiento y a la extracción y transporte de los minerales;

d) Beneficio, que consiste en el tratamiento de los minerales explotados para elevar el contenido útil o ley de los mismos;

e) Fundición, que comprende los procedimientos técnicos destinados a separar los metales de los correspondientes minerales o concentrados producidos en el beneficio;

f) Refinación, que consiste en los procedimientos técnicos destinados a convertir los productos metálicos en metales de alta pureza; y,

g) Comercialización, que consiste en la compraventa de minerales o la celebración de otros contratos que tengan por objeto la negociación de cualquier producto resultante de la actividad minera.

I will give these latin governments a lot of credit. They may be behind in certain areas of mineral research and mapping but their websites and info are often good and up to date in Kansas city.

Grey areas may exist in Chile where permits are many layered and once you get a permit of a certain kind after about two years you can say you are cleared to mine, so are in an exploitation stage. Not so Ecuador I believe.

EC<:-}



To: marcos who wrote (58855)4/20/2008 10:06:50 PM
From: Proud Deplorable  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 78422
 
The trick here is not to fuss over the details as that is too close to the story but rather try to guess what the market in general would do in the next week or so. I'm guessing that major bleeding will occur so I placed a stink bid low enough that I can sleep if its filled. There has been so much bad news in the media over this that I speculate that this can lose another 50% before it rebounds