Equinox Gold Publishes 2024 Sustainability Report
Equinox Gold Publishes 2024 Sustainability
Report
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 15, 2025) -
Equinox Gold Corp.
(TSX: EQX)
(NYSE American: EQX) ("Equinox Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the publication of its
2024 Sustainability Report. Informed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainability
Accounting Standards Board (SASB) frameworks, the report provides a comprehensive overview of the
Company's performance and progress across key environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics,
including safety, environmental stewardship, community engagement and ethical business practices.
The report and detailed GRI and SASB data tables are available for review and download on Equinox
Gold's website at
www.equinoxgold.com/responsible-mining
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Greg Smith, CEO of Equinox Gold, commented: "Responsible mining is foundational to how we operate
at Equinox Gold. ESG principles are central to our culture, our business strategy, and the decisions we
make each day. In 2024, we made meaningful progress on several fronts: improving our environmental
performance, advancing water stewardship projects, increasing our social investments, and enhancing
initiatives focused on ethical governance and transparency. We also expanded training, leadership and
health and well-being programs for our workforce to ensure our team has the skills to work safely and
thrive in their workplace. I am proud of our team's dedication to each other and to upholding our
responsible mining commitments."
2024 ESG ACHIEVEMENTS
Environment
Improved our environmental performance by 31% compared to 2023, achieving a Significant
Environmental Incident Frequency Rate of 0.20 per million hours worked
Demonstrated best practices in tailings and heap leach management, with zero tailings or heap
leach-related environmental or safety incidents
Diverted 4,531 tonnes of hazardous and nonhazardous material from disposal
Rehabilitated 38.5 hectares of land and planted more than 32,395 seedlings
Advanced several water stewardship initiatives, including implementation of dry stack tailings and
maintenance of a freshwater reservoir at our RDM Mine to serve both the mine and local
communities
Social
Celebrated eight years without a lost-time injury ("LTI") at Mesquite and recorded zero LTIs at
Greenstone and Castle Mountain in 2024, with a Company-wide LTI frequency rate of 0.49 per
million hours worked (target 0.61)
Achieved a Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate of 2.21 per million hours worked (target: 3.00)
Increased social investments to US$10.1 million, focusing primarily on healthcare and education
Invested in our communities, with 96% of total procurement spend remaining within host countries
and 16% directed to local suppliers (up from 14% in 2023)
Invested in our people, with continuation of our Leadership Academy in Brazil and launch of our
new Emerging Leader Program in North America
Organized the Ride to Greenstone cycling relay from Vancouver, BC to Geraldton, ON, celebrating
the opening of our new Greenstone Mine and raising C$1.24 million for the Geraldton District
Hospital and over C$200,000 for local charities at our United States and Brazil mines
Governance
Upheld human rights across our organization, including human rights risk assessments, workforce
ethics training and publishing our first Modern Slavery Report
Achieved 100% acknowledgment of Equinox Gold's Supplier Code of Conduct from over 4,000
active suppliers
Tied 8% of executive incentive compensation to ESG metrics
Formalized a Company-wide Equity, Diversity and Inclusion strategy underpinned by four pillars:
inclusive leadership, inclusive culture, workforce diversity and equity in practice, all committed to a
merit-based workplace grounded in fairness and equity to empower our diverse workforce and
drive innovation
2025 ESG PRIORITIES
Continue to improve our health and safety and environmental performance
Implement the objectives detailed in our Human Resources and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
strategic roadmaps
Complete external assurance of the World Gold Council's Responsible Gold Mining Principles at
two sites
Complete training on Equinox Gold's Social Management Standards at all sites
Implement a new Enterprise Risk Management system to improve risk management efficiency,
data accessibility and reporting
More information about Equinox Gold's 2024 performance, 2025 targets and commitments to
responsible mining is available in the reports and other disclosure on our website at
www.equinoxgold.com/responsible-mining
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Equinox Gold Contact
Ryan King
Senior Vice President, Capital Markets and Strategy
T: +1 778.998.3700
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Cautionary Notes
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within
the meaning of applicable securities legislation (collectively "Forward-looking Information"). Actual
results of operations and the ensuing financial results may vary materially from the amounts set out in
any Forward-looking Information. Forward-looking Information in this news release relate to, among
other things: the ESG objectives and priorities, including expectations for the Company's health,
safety and environmental performance. Forward-looking Information is generally identified by words
such as "target", "ensure", "continue", "develop", "commitment" and similar expressions and phrases
or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", or "should", or the negative
connotation of such terms, are intended to identify Forward-looking Information. Although the
Company believes that the expectations reflected in such Forward-looking Information are
reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on Forward-looking Information since the Company
can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has based
Forward-looking Information on the Company's current expectations and projections about future
events and these assumptions include: the Company's ability to comply with environmental, health
and safety laws or other requirements, standards or protocols; and the Company's ability to meet its
ESG objectives, priorities and targets. While the Company considers these assumptions to be
reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Accordingly,
readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on Forward-looking Information contained in this news
release. Forward-looking Information involves numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors that
may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
such Forward-looking Information. Such factors include those described in the section "Risk Factors
in in the Company's MD&A dated March 13, 2025 for the year ended December 31, 2024, and in the
section titled "Risks Related to the Business" in Equinox Gold's most recently filed Annual
Information Form which is available on SEDAR+ at
www.sedarplus.ca
and on EDGAR at
www.sec.gov/edgar
. Forward-looking Information reflects management's current expectations for future
events and is subject to change. Except as required by applicable law, the Company assumes no
obligation to update or to publicly announce the results of any change to any Forward-looking
Information contained or incorporated by reference to reflect actual results, future events or
developments, changes in assumptions or other factors affecting Forward-looking Information. If the
Company updates any Forward-looking Information, no inference should be drawn that the Company
will make additional updates with respect to those or other Forward-looking Information. All Forward-
looking Information contained in this news release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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