Eldorado promotes a strong, company-wide workplace health and safety culture:

• We follow the hierarchy of controls to reduce occupational exposures to as low as reasonably practicable and establish industrial hygiene programs based on site-specific risk.
• Workers are provided with healthy food options at remote locations, annual health check-ups and regular health and safety training.
• We continuously work to improve road safety on and off site, certify environmental and occupational health and safety management systems and invest in community health programs and infrastructure.

We continue to invest in initiatives in our host communities intended to improve the health and well-being of those around us. In 2023, Eldorado continued to support community health and well-being initiatives, as part of our community investment strategy.

In 2023, Eldorado’s Board was composed of 56% female directors. We also updated our Diversity Policy, which includes an aspirational target to maintain 30% women on our senior management team. By doing so, we are:

• Promoting a workplace free from gender-based discrimination (see our Respectful Workplace Policy).
• Implementing our Diversity Policy and Code of Ethics and Business Conduct.
• Promoting opportunities for women that foster career advancement.

At Lamaque, we continued providing support to parents in our workforce, including improved access to paid daycare that fosters equal opportunity and participation, and, in a first for Eldorado, we welcomed two female professionals from Chile to join our ranks through the Artemisa Mining Challenge. Beyond the mine at Efemçukuru and Kışladağ, we focused on delivering our “Productive Women, Strong Futures” and “Women Entrepreneur Vision” programs through providing long-term support for entrepreneurship and mentorship opportunities to local women. More information can be found in the Inclusive Diversity and Engaged and Prosperous Communities sections of this report.

Eldorado works to manage our water consumption while collaborating with local communities and governments by:

• Giving preference to dry-stack tailings in mine design, where feasible.
• Recycling water at our sites.
• Treating contact water prior to discharge.
• Conducting research and engineering to improve efficiency and reduce consumption.
• Conducting comprehensive site monitoring of water sources (upstream and downstream).
• Collaborating with community and government representatives to monitor water at sites.
• Annual public water reporting.
• Reducing, recycling and reusing water wherever possible.

In 2023, Kışladağ continued its long-term support for maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure in local communities to ensure access to fresh potable water now and into the future.

Eldorado actively builds the conditions under which sustainable economic growth can occur by:

• Providing well-paying jobs, supporting local businesses and collaborating with local chambers of commerce and governments to diversify economic growth.
• Providing training and capacity-building assistance to help local businesses, suppliers, contractors and employees develop skills that can be transferred to other opportunities and grow local economies.

Our commitment to local employment and procurement is formalized in our new Social Performance Policy. We prioritize local employment everywhere we operate. In 2023, 79% of our workforce was employed from communities local to our sites and offices and, our domestic procurement spend was approximately $693 million.

Eldorado makes significant investments in infrastructure to transport materials, water, energy and information to our locations by:

• Prioritizing local procurement and training, building infrastructure, innovation and industry.
• Partnering with local businesses and universities, we promote research and development and invest in local infrastructure such as public roads and irrigation systems that are fundamental to achieving the SDG targets.

In 2023, Eldorado contributed approximately $4.29 million in local communities to support various efforts, including strategic community investments aimed at building and supporting the economic development of local women, repairing community infrastructure, and donating educational materials. However, our contributions reach beyond donations and include investments aimed at building local capacity in our host communities, such as providing access to education and professional training opportunities.

Eldorado seeks to responsibly produce materials that help create socio-economic benefits fundamental to healthy communities and transitioning to a lower-carbon economy. Our business is focused on responsibly and sustainably creating value from natural resources, and we seek to adopt international best practices wherever we operate.

In 2023, Eldorado had no major environmental incidents across our operations. Moreover, we continued to implement our Climate Change Strategy and advanced the development of a mitigation pathway toward our GHG emissions target to mitigate our contribution to climate change and continue building a responsible and resilient business. We also completed assurance against the WGC’s Conflict-Free Gold Standard (CFGS) for our 2022 operations and full conformance to RGMP Year 3 requirements (click here to read Eldorado’s Year Three RGMP Report).