OceanaGold Releases 2024 Sustainability Report

Megan Saussey, Chief Sustainability Officer of OceanaGold, said "2024 was a year of implementation of our updated three-year Sustainability Strategy, with a focus on strengthening our core responsible business practices and maintaining consistent performance across the business."

2024 Sustainability Performance Outcomes:

• Maintained an MSCI "AA" and "Leader" rating.
• Commenced implementation of our updated three-year Sustainability Strategy.
• Developed and progressed Safety Improvement Plans and embedded the investigation learnings across all sites following two fatalities during the year.
• Achieved an 80% employee engagement score for our 2024 Culture Survey results, exceeding the global mining and metals benchmark by 8%, demonstrating a strong level of connection to, and satisfaction with, working at OceanaGold.
• Maintained our track record of zero material environmental incidents.
• Completed over 100ha of progressive rehabilitation of disturbed mine land to the agreed end use; over 30% more land than what was disturbed in the year.
• Conducted approximately 250 facilitated engagements with Iwi groups (Māori Peoples) who have indicated an interest in the Waihi North Project in New Zealand.
• Spent over US$193 million with local suppliers, paid US$125 million in taxes and royalties to host Governments, and contributed US$11 million to social investments and community partnerships.
• Completed portfolio-level climate change transition and physical climate scenario and risk analysis.
• Met 70% of our Company-wide water needs through re-used or recycled water.

Links to OceanaGold's Sustainability-related Reports

• 2024 Sustainability Report available here.
• 2024 Interactive ESG Data available here.
• 2024 Basis of Preparation and Reporting Indexes available here.
• 2024 RGMP Implementation and Conformance Report available here.
• 2024 Conflict-Free Gold Statement available here.
• 2024 Modern Slavery Statement available here.

About OceanaGold

OceanaGold is a growing intermediate gold and copper producer committed to safely and responsibly maximizing the generation of Free Cash Flow from our operations and delivering strong returns for our shareholders. We have a portfolio of four operating mines: the Haile Gold Mine in the United States of America; Didipio Mine in the Philippines; and the Macraes and Waihi operations in New Zealand.

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