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News · Jun 2026

OCIM publishes its first annual report, covering the 2025 financial year

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 outlook for 2026-2027.

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October 2026

Insight

Colombian gold: structuring the middle of the value chain

Colombia is tightening the rules around its small-scale gold.

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October 2026

Insight

Our Model

Processing plants: a key link to eliminate mercury from ASM gold

Part of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) production chain is successfully replacing individual mercury amalgamation with closed-circuit cyanidation operated in processing units.

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October 2026

Media & Events

Our Model

From Ore to Evidence: an article in The Alchemist

The Alchemist, edition 123, published by LBMA for the Global Precious Metals Conference held in Sorrento this week, carries an article by Laurent Mathiot, Chairman and CEO of OCIM Group. Artisanal...

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August 2026

News

Compliance

Responsible Gold

World Gold Council and OCIM Metals & Mining Partner to Drive Collective Action for Responsible ASGM

Partnership aims to support ASGM formalization, strengthen supply chain integrity, and expand pathways to market for responsibly produced gold

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July 2026

News

Our Model

OCIM Metals & Mining Joins the Swiss Precious Metals Association (ASMP)

OCIM Metals & Mining is now a member of the Swiss Precious Metals Association (ASMP), which brings together stakeholders in the Swiss precious metals industry around common standards for compliance, accountability, and transparency.

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June 2026

News

Our Model

OCIM publishes its first annual report, covering the 2025 financial year

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 outlook for 2026-2027.

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June 2026

Interview

Responsible Gold

“We demonstrate every day that ASM can be integrated into responsible supply chains”

Ivan Salas, Country Manager of Soleil Metals, OCIM’s Peruvian subsidiary, discusses the field reality of responsible gold in Peru on the occasion of the LBMA and World Gold Council Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing Summit, held in London from 17 to 19 June 2026.

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June 2026

Explainer

Our Model

What is responsible gold? A definition for the artisanal and small-scale gold chain

Responsible ASM gold is gold for which every link in the chain (extraction practices, commercial relationship with producers, processing and refining) satisfies requirements that are verifiable and demonstrable through an evidence mechanism combining compliance and physical traceability.

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May 2026

Insight

Our Model

Gold from the Guiana Shield: the missing link of processing plants

Legal gold production in French Guiana appears to have reached a ceiling, even as illegal gold mining continues to expand, with well-documented environmental consequences.

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May 2026

Interview

Compliance

« Compliance is an opportunity to transform small-scale mining »

Oscar Pezo, Head of Compliance at Soleil Metals, explains banking-grade compliance is applied to miners: twenty-two onboarding documents, upstream KYC files, on-site audits, scientific ore traceability...