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

Quartz, felspar and mica are found in pegmatite rocks ... These mines will gradually register with the Indian Bureau of Mines and will be regulated as major minerals. A transition time of four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...