Weekly Report - 30 January 2014 (WR-14-04)

ECUADOR | Limestone deposit. On 28 January Ecuador’s national mining firm (Enami) announced the discovery of a large limestone deposit in the rural Zumba area of Zamora-Chinchipe province in the southern Amazon region. According to an Enami statement, a series of studies carried out on the Isimanchi deposit and audited by the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (Crirsco) found that the deposit may contain some 67m tonnes (t) of high purity (85%) limestone.