Responsible Development

The Company commits to prioritising and evaluating health, safety, social, and environmental considerations across its operations, whilst seeking to achieve sustainable development as a core objective. We strive to balance social, environmental, and economic concerns in how we manage our business.

Our corporate responsibility focuses on:

• Improving our health and safety to provide a safe working environment
• Ensuring good working conditions and fair treatment for our employees
• Supporting local communities and the economy
• Promoting gender equality in our operations
• Limiting our environmental impact
• Surpassing applicable and relevant legal and regulatory requirements, whilst aiming to achieve standards of international best practice.
• Developing company operations according to the Finnish Mining Industry Association Sustainable Mining and Sustainable Exploration standards , ICMM frameworks and the Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs).
• Identifying, assessing and managing risks associated with our operation to employees, contractors, the environment and communities
• Communicating and engaging with employees, contractors and all stakeholders to build relationships based on transparency, trust and mutual involvement, and to share responsibility for meeting these corporate aims;
• Reporting annually on economic, social, and environmental performance at the corporate level using the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards
• Integrating sustainable development principles into corporate strategy and decision-making processes relating to investments and in the design, operation, and closure of facilities.

Approved by the Board of Directors on September 22, 2023