KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults ...

A girl show some of mica flakes she has collected whilst working in a open cast illegal mine in Giridih district in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India on January 22. A girl show some of mica ...

KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM: In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the ...

The precious mineral lode of these mountains, in India's poor, remote east, does not bring riches to those who mine it. Instead, the mica that gives sparkle to the world means only grinding work ...

For the two deaths were hushed up in a belt of eastern India reliant on mica where illegal mining is often the only way to earn an income, highlighting that people were still dying in mines ...

fv=1 Indian law prohibits anyone under the age of 14 from working - and certainly not in dangerous jobs like mining. That's why the authorities want to crack down on the illegal mica trade.

"We genuinely want to solve the problem," he said. India is one of the world's top producers of mica. Once boasting more than 700 mines with over 20,000 workers, the industry was hit by 1980s ...

By Nita Bhalla, Rina Chandran and Anuradha Nagaraj ...

I n the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two ...

Blood Mica: Deaths of child workers in India's mica 'ghost' mines covered up to keep industry alive ...

In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret. Deaths of child workers in India's mica 'ghost' mines covered up to ...