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EXHIBIT 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14 OR 15D-14
  OF THE SECURITIES
  EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF
  THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, W. Pierce Carson, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form
  10-KSB of Azco Mining Inc. (the small business issuer);

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not
  contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
  fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
  which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered
  by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements,
  and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all
  material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows
  of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. I am responsible for establishing and maintaining
  disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e)
  and 15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures,
  or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision,
  to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer, including
  its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,
  particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) [Paragraph omitted in accordance with SEC
  transition instructions contained in SEC Release 34-47986];

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business
  issuers disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report
  my conclusion about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures,
  as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation;
  and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the
  small business issuers internal control over financial reporting that
  occurred during the small business issuers most recent fiscal quarter
  that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect,
  the small business issuers internal control over financial reporting;
  and

5. I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation
  of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuers
  auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuers board of
  directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material
  weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting
  which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuers
  ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves
  management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business
  issuers internal control over financial reporting.

|Date: February 14, 2007 |     |                                                   
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|                        | By: | s/s W. Pierce
        Carson                      
|                        |     | W. Pierce Carson                                  
|                        |     | President, Chief Executive
      Officer, Director
|                        |     | and Chief Financial Officer                       



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