Adventus Mining Corporation and Salazar Resources Limited announced that the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition of Ecuador has granted Administrative Authorization over Public Hydric Domain for the Curipamba - El Domo project. This key permit allows the Project to carry out planned construction activities in accordance with the technical requirements stipulated in the Water Resources Law. With this approval, the last main step prior to the start of construction is the receipt of the final document outlining the transition from the medium scale exploration to exploitation phase as outlined in the Participants' news release on February 22, 2024.

However, on June 12, 2024, a constitutional protective action filed against MAATE and the Attorney General's office and naming Curimining as an interested third party, was admitted by the Judicial Unit of Las Naves canton in Bolívar province of Ecuador. Curimining is owned by the Participants, but the Participants have not been formally notified yet of these actions. The legal action has been submitted by a group of individuals and sponsored by an Ecuadorian non-governmental organization.

The action requests that the environmental license be rendered void alleging non-compliance with the Environmental Consultation process, despite what the Participants believe to be ample well-documented evidence to the contrary. The Project obtained the environmental license for the mine's construction and operation phase on January 19, 2024, after a lengthy process that took nearly 27 months. As part of this process, MAATE conducted an Environmental Consultation complying with an Ecuadorian executive decree and international standards, which resulted in a 98% vote in favour for the issuance of the Environmental License.