Mining companies in Ecuador

Ecuador's SRI Catastro RUC lists 5,334 companies in mining and quarrying (ISIC section B), 2,297 of them active, which is 0.9% of all Ecuadorian records in the LatSouth build (data as of 2026-10-01). By province, Pichincha leads with 1,421 (27% of the section), followed by El Oro (1,399) and Azuay (782). The largest divisions are 07 (mining of metal ores, 3,036) and 08 (other mining and quarrying, 939); 3 further divisions complete it.

A small section by count with high-value accounts: mine operators, quarries, sand and gravel pits, oil and gas producers and the service companies around them. Division 08 (quarrying) usually has the most rows; 09 (support services) is where drilling and engineering contractors register. Chile and Peru are the copper economies; Brazil, Argentina and Colombia add iron ore, lithium, oil and coal. In Ecuador, 100% of these rows carry an ISIC class; the registry publishes no size field; the registry publishes no website or e-mail; 209 were registered in the 12 months before the extraction. There is no street address at the source; location is province, canton and parish.