Country origin record

Mozambique

Home to the major ruby deposits around Montepuez in Cabo Delgado Province.

Evidence statusPublished & sourcedLast reviewed August 15, 2026
OverviewGem relationshipsMap & precisionSources

Evidence-backed overview

A country in the gemstone graph

Home to the major ruby deposits around Montepuez in Cabo Delgado Province.

Bidirectional relationships

Documented gemstones

Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.

Current production

Ruby

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Current production verified in at least one locality

Open the individual locality record for the dated production evidence and scope.

Evidence[1][3][2]

Within this country

Published places

Spatial context

Map & coordinate precision

All markers retain their individual precision labels.

Loading the local vector map…

Evidence ledger

Sources & verification

Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.

  1. [1]
    Tao Hsu, Andrew Lucas, and Vincent Pardieu. Mozambique: A Ruby Discovery for the 21st Century.

    Gems & Gemology · 2015

    View authoritative source
  2. [2]
    Wim Vertriest, Sudarat Saeseaw, and Kevin Schumacher. Update from Mozambique’s Ruby Mines.

    Gems & Gemology · 2022

    View authoritative source
  3. [3]
    Gemfields Group Limited. Operational update to 30 June 2026.

    Gemfields Group Limited · 2026

    View authoritative source