Mozambique Mining: Gemfields to pay $8.3 mn to settle Montepuez torture & murder claims

Mozambique Mining:  Gemfields to pay $8.3 mn to settle Montepuez torture & murder claims

Gemfields has agreed to pay $8.3 mn to settle 273 claims of killings, severe beatings and house burnings related to the Montepuez ruby mines, the company announced today. Importantly, it has agreed an independent grievance panel which can award compensation for any future claims.

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Mozambique Mining: Gemfields talks up ‘responsibility’ amid lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses

Precious gemstones miner Gemfields is stepping up efforts to increase transparency across the entire supply chain amid fresh allegations of human rights abuses at its Montepuez ruby mine in Mozambique, which has cost it a lawsuit filed last week in London’s High Court.

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Mozambique Mining: Gemfields reveals and denies fresh human rights abuse claims

Pallinghurst Resources’s precious gemstones miner Gemfields is standing up to disturbing allegations of human rights abuses at the company’s Montepuez ruby mine in Mozambique, and disclosed it’s now target of a legal claim on behalf of 29 locals. The company, the world’s top coloured gems producer, accounting for roughly a third of the global supply of emeralds and rubies, revealed that human rights law firm Leigh Day had lodged a claim against the company and its Mozambican…

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