OCIM connects two worlds considered incompatible: artisanal and small-scale mining and institutional markets.
Over 20 percent of the world’s gold comes from artisanal and small-scale mining. Most of it never reaches institutional markets because the upstream chain cannot meet their standards. OCIM closes the gap by building both the production and the compliance architecture required.
Two subsidiaries, each anchored in its own geography with its own function.
OCIM Finance is the holding company of the group. Activities are carried out by dedicated subsidiaries, that cover the value chain from upstream field operations to the downstream market endpoint.
Trading, compliance and group finance. Connects Soleil Metals' production to accredited refiners in Europe.
Learn more about OCIM Metals & MiningTwo processing plants in southern Peru. Miner onboarding under the compliance path framework, with xTrace traceability on every batch.
Learn more about Soleil MetalsFour dimensions shape what OCIM is and what it builds.
Responsible gold is gold whose chain, from artisanal and small-scale mining to institutional supply, meets verifiable requirements progressively, with compliance qualifying the actors, traceability qualifying the material, and measurable improvement on the ground.
OCIM applies banking grade compliance to the upstream ASM chain. Compliance functions as the organising principle of the entire chain, and as the market access key that responsible gold requires.
OCIM integrates artisanal and small-scale miners into the formal economy through traceability, training and direct support. This integration is an outcome of the business model, embedded in its design.
OCIM's chain runs from the artisanal and small-scale mine to the international market. Production and compliance are built into a single architecture, coordinated from Paris, Geneva and Peru.
OCIM’s model is anchored by
accreditations, agreements and regulatory oversight.
Member of the ASM Task Force. London Bullion Market Association, the international standard-setting body for the gold market.
Full Member
SBG Step 1 confirmed on the processing plants. Covers many requirements such as ASGM supplier legitimacy, traceability with LBMA Toolkit onboarding and mercury handling.
Step 2 in progress
Extends independent verification to our due diligence and grievance systems, under a protocol recognised by downstream industrial buyers.
Audit in Progress
Gold Processing Initiative. First processing plant operator to enter a formal collaboration with the WGC on the formalisation of ASM.
Collaboration Agreement
Member since July 2026, within a membership of Swiss refiners, traders and banks. OCIM joins as an integrated producer sourcing from ASM mining.
Full Member
Swiss federal supervision under the Anti Money Laundering Act. OCIM Metals & Mining SA.
AMLA Regulated
Peru is rarely cited as a model for responsible artisanal gold. Yet the country offers three structural conditions that make a compliance corridor operationally possible, starting with a mid chain of industrial processing plants that no other ASM jurisdiction can match.
Between fully traced gold and overtly illegal gold sits a large grey segment whose origin is partially documented at best. Naming it is the prerequisite to addressing it.
The Geneva financial daily features OCIM's compliance framework as a structural answer to the institutional disqualification of artisanal gold. The angle confirms what we have argued for two years.
Group level review of 2025, the year of foundations. Financial results, the compliance framework as operational architecture, ESG indicators on the Peru sites, and the 2026-2027 outlook.