Ecuador
Traceable gold supply chains in Ecuador
Gold in Ecuador passes through many hands. Minario maps each actor, the institution it answers to and the evidence it must keep, so every bar can prove where it came from.
How Minario works in Ecuador
A 90-second overview of the Ecuadorian supply chain, its institutions and how Minario controls each step.
Video narrated in Spanish.
The chain
The actors of the Ecuadorian gold chain
- Artisanal and subsistence miners
- Small-scale miners
- Concession holders
- Processing and smelting plants
- Licensed traders
- Central Bank authorised agents
- Exporters
- Refineries
Institutions
Each actor answers to an institution
Minario keeps this map as configurable data: each actor with its credential, each credential with its institution, each rule with its source.
Sector ministry
Grants mining concessions and permits.
ARCOM
Mining regulation and control agency: oversight, licensing and export certification.
Central Bank of Ecuador
Qualifies its gold suppliers.
SRI
Tax authority: invoices and withholdings.
SENAE
Customs: export declarations.
UAFE
Financial analysis unit: anti-money-laundering prevention.
How Minario controls the chain
From the purchase counter to export
- 1
Purchase
Checks the miner's permit or concession, the invoice with its mining right of origin, and prices the bar in fine grams. If a requirement is missing, the purchase does not proceed.
- 2
Smelting
The output bar inherits the origin of every input bar, with loss control against tolerance.
- 3
Sale
Assembles the file: invoices, withholdings, customs declaration and export certificate, and warns before a licence expires.
The Ecuador jurisdiction matrix in Minario is a working draft pending review by legal counsel. This page is not legal advice.
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