Poverty is the key driver in child exploitation and illegal mining of mica in Madagascar and also India, but it requires a ...

After years of increasing attention to child labor, debt traps and risks of bondage are under-reported but widespread.

Consider the mica tablets that European travellers to India sent back home between 1750 and 1857. Each set of six or more tablets cost around 2 rupees 10 annas, and captured an array of Indian ...

New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): The Ministry of Mines has shifted minerals Barytes, Felspar, Mica and Quartz from the list of minor minerals to the category of major minerals. An official ...

Mica is sourced from more than 35 countries, mainly India, Madagascar, China, South Africa and Brazil. Mining it is an extremely labour-intensive process that requires going into narrow caves that ...

Reddy said that the Centre’s INR 34,000 Cr National Critical Mineral Mission will lessen India’s "import dependence" and scale up the mining of minerals like lithium Just last week ...