about Ecometals
Ecometals Limited is a Toronto Venture Exchange-listed mineral exploration company with a primary focus on South America. The company’s current exploration portfolio includes iron ore and manganese prospects in Brazil and gold projects in Ecuador.
The management team has significantly advanced the existing projects and the company is on the verge of changing from a resource exploration venture to a development company generating cash flow. The company's projects have significant upside potential and management is committed to fully realizing this potential.
Ecometals trades on the TSX Venture Exchange with the symbol EC. It is also listed on the Frankfurt and Berlin exchanges under the symbol GDQ.
Ecometals strives to operates in accordance with best practices by finding, acquiring, developing and producing quality reserves in a safe, profitable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly manner.
Ecometals aims to build shareholder value by discovering or acquiring world-class mineral exploration and resource properties in South America and developing them into mines. In so doing, Ecometals intends to work in harmony with host governments and communities to develop economically attractive projects, while protecting the environment.
As we conduct our business, we have always been guided by our commitment to responsible behaviour. In practice, this translates into bringing long-term benefits to the communities in which we operate, and fostering a culture of excellence among our employees. By upholding these values in everything we do, we create opportunities to earn the trust of our stakeholders and to create shareholder value.
For the 2009 calendar year the company has set out the following as its key corporate goals:
- Sale of the manganese ore stockpile situated at the Anglo Ferrous Port in Santana
- Commercialization of the manganese oxide ore stockpiles situated at Serra do Navio through their beneficiation, production and profitable sale of products
- Drilling on the Matapi iron project as an estimate of the potential economic scale
- Development of the commercial decision for Condor Gold project
- Completion of a drilling program at Rio Zarza to explore for extensions of the “Fruta del Norte” gold mineralization

