TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 13, 2009) - ECU Silver Mining Inc. (TSX:ECU - News) reports on dore bar fabrication for the month of June.

In the month of June, our operations treating the oxide resource generated 32 dore bars with a total weight of 685 kilograms (kg). Our assays of the dore bars indicated that they contained a total of approximately 542 ounces of gold and 14,406 ounces of silver. To date we have generated 150 bars with a total weight of 3,071 kg containing 1,704 ounces of gold and 61,248 ounces of silver.

The amount of dore bars and the total weight for June was lower than that generated in the month of May due to a planned shutdown of the mill during June. We are planning to introduce higher grade gold material into the mill and the shutdown was initiated to make modifications to the mill to improve recoveries of this gold rich material.

Productivity of the oxide operations was excellent as we averaged 451 tonnes per day (tpd) during the 19 operating days of June versus last month's average production of 408 tpd. The maximum milling rate for the month of June was 549 tpd versus the 493 tpd achieved in May.

Dore shipments continue on a regular basis with the first of July's shipment having been made recently.