Eight-year-old Frederic works morning or afternoon shifts, depending on his school schedule, sorting mica alongside his elder brother. His hands are marked by traces, wounds and scars caused by the ...

Authorities in Jharkhand's Giridih district sealed three godowns involved in storing illegally-mined mica. The operation was ...

Sudbury, ON – CEMI – the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation is pleased to announce that our proposed national Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) program has been approved ...

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Friday claimed that illegal mica mines in Koderma district of Jharkhand are now ‘child labour-free’. NCPCR chairperson Priyank ...

The Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) launched its Canada-wide network last week, Headquartered in Sudbury, Ontario, it will connect regional networks to become a collaborative, ...

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 ...

BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in Jharkhand have begun the process of legalising mica mining, a senior government official said on Thursday, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Koderma's Chatarbar Wildlife Sanctuary is under siege from illegal mica mining, prompting authorities to spring into action.

Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers to supplement ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in eastern India will crack down on "mica mafia" by starting to legalize some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson ...

Child rights experts say legalising the mining of mica will allow the sector to be regulated, root out child labour, and ensure better wages and conditions for mine workers BHUBANESWAR, May 4 (Thomson ...