Llurimagua Project is a copper and molybdenum mining project in Imbabura Province, Ecuador. It is named after Llurimagua, which is a community in the area.
Ecuadorean state mining company ENAMI and Chilean state-owned counterpart Corporacion Nacional del Cobre, or Codelco started advanced exploration in 2015 in the area's primary cloud forest after hundreds of police had to intervene to secure the area.[1]
It is in Intag in the Cordillera de Toisán and includes 4,839 hectares.[2][3]
Sampling in the area was done already.[2]
In China, there is interest in cooperation.
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