Mining · Salta, Argentina
Evidence-based environmental and social compliance. Your operation's Action Plan.
We structure years of impact studies and stakeholder engagement campaigns to pass the most demanding global audits. We prepare your plan integrating double materiality analysis, the Biodiversity Performance Standard (PS6), Community and Indigenous Peoples standards (PS5 and PS7), and IRMA's social chapters, ensuring traceability for every claim.
Request a meetingWhen it is critical to act
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International financing and IFC Standards
The financial institution requires critical habitat, resettlement, or indigenous peoples impact assessments. We draft the necessary action plans by consolidating the studies your operation has already commissioned.
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Independent IRMA Assessment
Your site is preparing for the formal audit or needs to close gaps after a self-assessment. We structure the socio-environmental evidence requirement by requirement to maximize your performance level.
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Updates and double materiality
Facing expansions or new corporate demands, we incorporate double materiality analysis into your existing plan, measuring both the operation's impact on the environment and the environment's impact on business viability.
The rigor of IFC and IRMA.
Mitigation hierarchy and materiality. IFC Performance Standards (the benchmark for the Equator Principles) mandate a systemic approach. Environmentally, they impose the hierarchy of avoid, minimize, restore, and offset. Socially, they demand proactive risk management for communities. Every measure must be materially relevant to the project's sustainability.
Biodiversity and Communities (PS6, PS5, PS7). In critical ecosystems (like Andean wetlands and lagoons), the standard requires demonstrable net gain. Simultaneously, it demands consent processes and fair compensation if local communities' livelihoods or lands are affected. Technical viability does not exist without social viability.
Planning and Adaptive Management. These requirements translate into Action Plans (Biodiversity, Resettlement, etc.) with continuous monitoring. Adaptive management ensures strategies adjust to field data, keeping the operation in permanent compliance.
IRMA. The Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance subjects sites to deep scrutiny. Auditors cross-reference company documentation with stakeholder interviews, simultaneously evaluating environmental integrity and the social license to operate. The organization of your evidence dictates your score.
Mitigation hierarchy
- as a last resort
In critical habitat
Net gain
Years of studies and campaigns. A single audit-ready plan.
Field consultants generate data volume. We provide the analytical rigor to integrate it into a master plan that answers, with exact sources, the metrics of international review:
- What is the critical value of the biodiversity and the context of local communities?
- What is the real impact, analyzed through the lens of double materiality?
- What is the demonstrable efficacy of mitigation and engagement measures?
We work in tandem with your consultants, integrating their efforts into the plan and dictating exactly which variables must be audited in the next campaign.
Execution and Deliverables
We start with an evidence audit with a fixed scope, timeline, and fee. With that clear map, you decide how to scale the intervention.
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Technical and social evidence audit
We cross-reference your operation's studies against IFC or IRMA requirements. We evaluate campaign comparability and the strength of community commitments.
You receive: A compliance gap matrix and measurement priorities for your next field season.
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Critical Assessment and Action Plans
We draft the required assessments and structure the Action Plans (Biodiversity/Social), defining responsibilities, budgets, and KPIs for the mitigation hierarchy.
You receive: Master documents ready for audit and technical criteria for compensations or offsets.
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Monitoring Intelligence
We establish early warning thresholds and response protocols. We systematize new data ingestion to prepare evidence for the next audit.
You receive: The comprehensive Monitoring Plan, continuous action updates, and annual compliance reporting.
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Financial Structuring and Legacy
We model long-term financial vehicles (trusts, perpetual endowments) to sustain community development and environmental offset plans beyond the mine's operational life.
You receive: The cross-cutting economic model to sustain your social license over the long term.
Transparency note: ITÍN develops the plans and does not participate in their validation, verification, or auditing. We use artificial intelligence to search and cite documents and to prepare drafts. A senior professional reviews and signs off on every deliverable.
Your operation's institutional memory.
We deliver Compass, your plan's institutional intelligence system, where every reported metric is anchored to its original source. When a new data campaign arrives, Compass flags which plan parameters must be calibrated. Your team uses this bulletproof foundation to defend every audit or justify disbursements. You contract our strategic advisory, and access to Compass is included.
Request a meetingQuery 01 · Reports
Query Winter census arrived: 410 flamingos. Does it indicate a population drop?
Calculated from project data
Undetermined: past census protocols lack statistical comparability.
Summer baselines oscillate between 1,080 and 1,180 individuals. Species ecology dictates winter migrations to alternative wetlands. The 2024 winter sampling effort was limited to a single transect. Numerical discrepancies are ecologically viable. This census establishes year-zero for the winter time series.
- Source
- 5 surveys, 2024 to 2026
- Verified
- 09/2026 · one under review
- Reliability
- medium
What would change it Validation against next year's census (same sampling effort) and correlation with the regional control lagoon.
On the board, twelve documents by eight authors are sorted by indicator. The flamingo surveys appear by season: 290 in winter 2024, counted along a single route; 410 in winter 2026, from six fixed points; and 1,080, 1,180 and 1,120 in the summers of 2024 to 2026, with 600, 640 and 610 at the control lagoon.
Query 02 · Trend
Query Which environmental variable shows significant deviation (double materiality)?
Calculated from project data
The vegetative vigor index in the meadows presents a negative 12% deviation from the baseline.
Control plots (unaltered watershed) register a 3% natural decline. During the anomalous 2020 drought, both watersheds responded symmetrically. Statistical divergence (9 percentage points) manifests starting in 2024. Macro climate variables do not justify the observed variance.
- Source
- Satellite series, annex 2 · Control vegas, p. 8
- Verified
- 07/2026
- Reliability
- medium
What would change it Modeling of particulate matter (dust) deposition from the adjacent mining road.
On the board, the chart shows summer vega vigor from 2018 to 2026 as a percentage of each site’s baseline, the average of the summers before operations began. The project ends at 88 and the control vegas at 97. In the dry summer of 2020 both sites fall. The alert zone starts at 90, and the project is in it in 2025 and 2026.
Query 03 · Plan
Query What is the regulatory action protocol (Mitigation hierarchy)?
Draft by Compass · to be reviewed and signed by a professional
The active Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) defines the steps. Execution led by Environmental Management.
Phase 1 (Minimize): The operation already executed the engineering redesign, moving the bypass 300m from the sensitive area. Phase 2 (Restore): If monitoring confirms operational causality, phytoremediation CAPEX is activated. Decision deadline is 60 days, with Q1 2027 re-evaluation. Compass drafts technical section 5. Final approval by senior consultant.
- Document
- Biodiversity Action Plan · section 5
- Decides
- environmental coordination · 60 days
- Signature
- pending
On the board, section 5 of the Biodiversity Action Plan moves from Rev. 0, in force, to a Rev. 1 draft with the signature pending. Minimize shows as done and Restore as under evaluation.
Frequently asked questions
Is it necessary to commission new field studies?
We maximize the ROI of the studies your operation has already funded. Only if the audit detects a critical gap against the standard do we specify what to measure, where, and how, so your next campaign captures it precisely.
Do you work with the consulting firm that did our baseline?
Yes. We act as the strategic integrator between the data your consultants collect and global compliance demands. Every report is cited maintaining original authorship.
Do you participate in the audit or the financier's review?
No. We build the compliance architecture. The final verdict is issued by independent third parties (IRMA auditors or bank consultants). This separation guarantees the ethical solidity of the process.
In what language do you deliver?
In Spanish, English, or bilingual, using the exact legal and technical lexicon expected by international reviewers and multilateral entities.
What happens with the operation's sensitive information?
Absolute confidentiality. Data is your company's property. If your IT policies require it, Compass deploys locally (on-premise) without connection to external servers. Details are on our Data and Confidentiality page.
Contact
What audit or disbursement is your operation facing?
Tell us in a forty-minute introductory meeting.
Shore of a high-altitude lagoon · Photo: Bruce Lyon