Artisanal gold.
Institutional standards.

Founded in Paris in 1961, OCIM is a family-owned group created to connect artisanal and small-scale miners with the most demanding international buyers through formalisation, traceability, and a bank-grade compliance framework.

Its subsidiary Soleil Metals is among the leading gold and silver producers in Peru thanks to its two processing plants, Yacari and Victoria. Gold ore is purchased from artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) who meet strict legal, social, and environmental requirements, and the gold and silver produced are sold as doré bars to LBMA Good Delivery refiners across Europe.

OCIM is a full member of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA).

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The compliance corridor

Over 20% of the world's gold comes from ASM mining. Yet without access to formal supply chains, miners sell to informal intermediaries at a fraction of the market price, with no contracts, no price guarantees and no path to the institutional markets that would fairly reward their production. On the other side, LBMA Good Delivery refiners accept only gold whose origin is fully traceable and compliant at every step. Between these two operational realities, OCIM builds and operates the corridor.

Artisanal miners

Informality, distrust, no traceability, exclusion from international markets

OCIM

Upstream KYC, continuous monitoring, field support, xTrace traceability system, Swiss Better Gold certification (Step1), LBMA accreditation

International market

Full traceability required, zero reputational tolerance, OECD and LBMA compliance

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Our goal: to reconcile the expectations of all players in the value chain"

A truly responsible gold market can only be built from within, by operators present at every link of the chain and capable of transforming it through an ambitious compliance and traceability framework. That is the choice OCIM has made.

Achieving this requires redefining how the upstream and downstream ends of the value chain interact. The compliance gap between artisanal ASM miners and institutional buyers will not close with a mere declaration of intent, but through new industry standards applied consistently and the trust that only external validation and full transparency make possible.

That is the only way to demonstrate that a responsible gold value chain is economically viable, scalable and built to last.

Laurent Mathiot, Chairman & CEO

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