Impact by design

The group's impact is felt both at Soleil Metals' plants and upstream, among the miners who supply them. 2025 forms the baseline against which future ESG trajectory will be measured.

The principle

Impact is an outcome of the model

OCIM makes the elimination of the sector’s main externalities, mercury, informality and unsafe conditions, a condition of commercial relationship. A miner partner enters the chain by meeting a defined standard, and that standard tightens as compliance, formalisation and production mature.

OCIM acts where it holds real leverage: at the mine, through what it requires before it buys, and at the plant, through what it operates and controls directly

The 2025 baseline.

2025 is the reference year against which OCIM's transformation will be measured, the first with the compliance framework at full architecture, Swiss Better Gold Step 1 confirmed on both plants, and xTrace extended to full production.

Environment

The group progressively eliminates mercury from the sourced material and contains the cyanide used in its place in closed-circuit installations at the plants.

Upstream · at the mine

Ore leaves the extraction site without chemical treatment. The reason is that all metallurgical processing takes place in Soleil Metals controlled facilities. Centralised treatment removes the need for mercury at the mine, and returns a higher recovery rate to the miner.

0
Amalgamation mercury

Elimination of the need for mercury upstream

Midstream · at the plants

Both plants operate without mercury, on a closed loop cyanidation circuit. Water is recirculated, residues are contained and monitored. Environmental baselines and the HSE management system were built during the year.

55%
Water recirculation rate

baseline to be raised in 2026

Social

The group turns formalisation into a rational economic choice for the miner, ensures workplace safety and fair conditions across plant and supplier operations, and builds constructive relations with the communities in the plants' area of influence.

Upstream · the miner partners

A support model was defined and deployed in 2025: technical assistance, field engagement, progressive improvement plans. Its purpose is to make safer practice and formal status achievable, and therefore durable.

300
Active ASM suppliers

in the compliance pathway, as at publication

Midstream · the teams and communities

The plants have been restarted and rebuilt to a full industrial workforce within nine months. Safety culture has been built through procedures, inductions and training. Neighbouring communities are treated as long term counterparties, in continuous dialogue with the plants.

250
Group headcount

at 31 December 2025

Governance

The group installs a compliance framework that makes its environmental and social commitments verifiable by third parties.

Upstream · the suppliers

Due diligence, traceability and responsible sourcing tools are applied to every partner. No ore enters the chain before the file is complete. The Swiss Better Gold model was developed in 2025 for progressive deployment across the supplier base.

100%
Suppliers screened

against sanctions lists, at onboarding and periodically

100%
Suppliers in the compliance pathway

upstream KYC completed before first lot

Midstream and group

Compliance is consolidated at OCIM Metals & Mining SA in Geneva under Swiss anti money laundering law. Country risk is managed at group level. The ESG management framework is being built on the same architecture.

RMI
Audit in progress

grievance mechanism being strengthened

LBMA
Responsible Sourcing framework

applied across the chain

From baseline to framework.

After establishing the baseline, the ESG strategy will be implemented and scaled as the group grows.

2026

Build the foundation

  • Formalise the group ESG strategy, with objectives, commitments and management systems
  • Conduct benchmarking and a double materiality assessment
  • Establish environmental baselines and the reporting framework
  • Initiate the Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions assessment
  • Complete the RMI process and strengthen the grievance mechanism

2027

Extend the perimeter

  • Expand technical assistance and field verification across the supplier base
  • Publish the first standalone ESG report, with targets and dated commitments
  • Implement the ESG framework within the refinery once it has been integrated into the group

Vision 2030

Hold the standard while scaling

  • Carry the same ESG and compliance framework into upstream concessions
  • Replicate the model in a second South American country at the same entry standard