Mica, a shimmering, heat resistant mineral used in everything from car paint to make-up, is in large-part produced by artisanal miners in India and Madagascar, where child labour and unsafe ...

Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny mineral mica each day. She cannot walk because of a physical disability.

In Madagascar, thousands of adults and children risk their lives mining for a shiny mineral called mica. It's found in electronics, cars, planes, and even paint.

Despite global gains on combatting child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, ...

In its first year in Madagascar, RMI focused its efforts on developing a deep understanding of the context related to mica mining. A team is now active in Fort Dauphin, directly in contact with ...

“In Madagascar too, where we estimate 11,000 children were involved in mica mining, we are encouraging alternative livelihoods such as setting up chicken farms and training in crop growing.” ...

1. Climate change has triggered a famine in southern Madagascar, forcing thousands of children to mine the mineral mica for survival. 2. Mica, used in electric cars to prevent battery fires, has ...

The mica mines in Jharkhand's Koderma district are now free from child labour. This is a significant milestone in the region where child exploitation is rampant On the 5th of July, the Chairperson ...