ECU Silver Mining Inc. is a Canadian-based, mining company, listed on the TSX trading under the symbol ECU. Actively engaged in gold, silver, lead and zinc exploration, mining and milling since 1997, the Company has a cluster of five mines in the historically prolific Velardeña mining district of Central Mexico, where it has had a series of major discoveries.

ECU has three properties within close proximity comprising the Velardeña District Properties. These are the main Velardeña Property, the Chicago Property and the San Diego Property (a 50% Joint Venture) all located in the prolific mining district of Velardeña. The properties are located in Durango State, central Mexico, situated approximately 95 kilometres south-southwest of the city of Torreón, Coahuila State, and 140 kilometres northeast of the state capital Durango.

An independent audit by Toronto-based Micon International, completed for the National Instrument (NI) 43-101 technical compliance report and reported January 20th, 2009, identifies a measured and indicated resource of 4 million tonnes containing 40 million ounces of silver-equivalent and an inferred resource of 26 million tonnes containing 391 million ounces of silver-equivalent.

The NI 43-101 technical report also includes a mineral Potential of 570 million to 930 million ounces of silver equivalent. The Company mines mineralized stope material from its mines and treats them at its wholly owned milling facilities.

ECU has a 320 tonne per day flotation mill (the Sulphide Mill) in the Village of Velardeña, where it treats its mineralized sulphide material to generate a lead/silver concentrate, a zinc concentrate, and a pyrite/gold concentrate. The Company also owns a 500 tonne per day cyanide leach mill (the Oxide Mill) adjacent to the Chicago Property, where it treats mineralized oxide material to generate silver/gold doré bars.