Gudiya, 13, breaks away pieces of mica from rocks in an illegal open cast mine in Koderma district in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, June 29, 2016. Picture taken June 29, 2016.

A five-year-old girl picks and collects mica flakes from an open cast illegal mica mine in Giridih district in Jharkhand on January 22. Credit: Nita Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Unique material ...

A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market resulted in at least seven children being killed NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, Sept 30 (Thomson ...

Poverty is the key driver in child exploitation and illegal mining of mica in Madagascar and also India, but it requires a multi-stakeholder response to eliminate, including action from the ...

KODERMA: Cracking down on illegal mica mining, the Koderma district’s forest officials on Wednesday seized three trucks and a JCB (earth mover) machine involved in the illegal trade in abandoned ...

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.

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 ...

Mica adds a healthy glow to beauty products. But for the children working in India's illegal mines, it brings broken bones, lung disease and pitiful pay.

According to the EFCC, the defendants conspired to defraud the Federal Government by illegally mining and attempting to export critical mineral resources, namely Mica, lithium-bearing ores like ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has brought charges against two Chinese nationals, Zhang Hong Lin and Gao Pei Hai, for alleged illegal mining and possession of mineral ...

NELLORE: TDP Politburo member Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy has intensified his agitation against ‘illegal mining’ of quartz in the district.After noticing ‘illegal mining’ of quartz at ...

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 ...