I've been looking for more on this ... the brief news item from elcomercio.com is all that I've found so far.
I happened to check www.mineriaecuador.com and it looks like they've updated/redesigned their site a bit:
http://www.mineriaecuador.com/index....
Not sure that much of the content has been updated but it is perhaps a good sign that they are putting some effort in to updating the web site.