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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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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...

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May 2026

Insight

Impact

Responsible Gold

Responsible gold is no longer an experimental subject: a reading of the SBG Impact Report 2025

Responsible gold has become a concrete subject. This is the implicit conclusion of the report recently published by Swiss Better Gold (SBG), which makes legible an institution that documents itself, opens its governance and articulates its economic thesis with growing clarity.

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April 2026

Insight

Impact

Our Model

Paramaribo Seminar: why processing plants are the key to eliminating mercury in the Guiana Shield

On April 17, 2026, Laurent Mathiot, Chairman and CEO of OCIM Group, took part in the seminar “Towards Responsible Gold Mining: Shared Experiences from the Guiana Shield”, organised by the French Embassy in Suriname.

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April 2026

Media & Events

Compliance

From onboarding to doré bar: OCIM’s model at the Bullion Integrity Forum

On April 16, 2026, Vanessa Hungerbühler, Head of Legal and Compliance at OCIM Metals and Mining, took part in Session 3 of the Bullion Integrity Forum, organised by aXedras in Zurich. The panel, entitled “Enhancing Integrity with xTrace: Perspectives from the Early Adopters”, brought together four early adopters of the xTrace traceability system, including two refiners.