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Mar 28, 2022In 2021 'Fenty Beauty', a leading makeup brand owned by the pop-star Rihanna, was criticised for using mica from mines in Giridih and Koderma, Jharkhand (Sirur, 2021). The news brought into limelight the discourse around industries thriving on cheap raw materials, especially ones acquired from illegal mica mines through child labour.
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Mica is an important mineral for whose deposits the Jharkhand area leads all countries in the world. The mica belt covering about 3,800 sq km lies in the northern parts of the districts of Hazaribagh and Giridih. Bauxite is found in and around the Pat region in north-west Ranchi district. Thus, Jharkhand area has rich endowments of both metallic
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May 5, 2021There are 171 counselors in 150 villages of Jharkhand who create awareness against sending children for mining and other social issues. KSCF has freed over 3,000 children from mica mines and 80,000 children from child labor across multiple industries. Though mining for mica is still illegal in India, many children and adults continue to do it ...
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Jan 15, 2021The majority of the world's mica comes from Jharkhand in India, and in 2016 Thomson Reuters Foundation, through its investigation, has brought forward the fact into light that this mineral, Mica, is mined by children at a deadly cost. Children even from the age of four are risking their lives working in these mines run
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Trees are cleared routinely to bring new land under mica mining," says Samanta Wajid Author has 858 answers and 103K answer views 9 mo Environmental harm The mining also leads to further deforestation as large stretches of forests in the area are illegally cleared. "Illegal mining serves the dual purpose by extracting mica and providing timber.
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Illegal mica mining in Jharkhand continues unabated, despite the severe environment and health hazards it poses From cosmetics to electronics and car paint, mica is used in a host of products and...
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A documentary made by Jharkhand-based filmmaker Deepak Bara that investigates the hidden world of mining of mica, used primarily in cosmetics, bagged the Sustainable Development Goals prize at the 2021 Japan Prize.
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While mica is derived from mines all over the world, the high-quality mica flakes that come from mines located in the dense forests of Bihar and Jharkhand make Eastern India a top producer of the mineral. Together, Bihar and Jharkhand are responsible for approximately 25 percent of the world's production, according to the Guardian, and with ...
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The main functions and activities of the Department are systematic survey and assessment of the mineral deposits of the State, their exploitation, administration of mines and mineral concession, enforcement measures for prevention of illegal mining and smuggling of minerals and assessment and collection of mining revenue.
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Mica and Child Labor In the Indian states of Jharkhand and Bihar, where mica is bountiful and where a quarter of the world's mica supply is derived, there is an estimated 22,000 children mining mica, who are put at risk daily by the practice.
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About 300 villages in the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand were involved in the informal artisanal small-scale Mica mining. The number of juveniles working in the mines was estimated to be about 22,000. Accusations instigated the study by Terre Des Homes that some major cosmetic
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Dutch campaign group SOMO estimates up to 20,000 children are involved in mica mining in Jharkhand and Bihar. Investigations by the Thomson Reuters Foundation over three months found children...
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Sasha Calder and Leonardo Bonanni in Jharkhand, courtesy Beautycounter. The blockchain solution is helping Beautycounter move closer to its first goal: physically visiting and auditing all of its mica mines and working with suppliers to implement responsible sourcing program goals.
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From nail polish to lipstick, mica is found in cosmetics that millions of people use every day.But unknown to consumers, the mineral that gives these product...
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Jharkhand is the sole producer of Coking Coal, Uranium and Pyrite. It ranks first in India in the production of Coal, Mica, Kyanite and Copper. Various other minerals that are found in Jharkhand, include - Apatite, Barytes, Bauxite, Chromite, Cobalt, Dolomite, Felspar, Graphite, Iron Ore, Limestone, Manganese Ore, Nickel Ore, Quartz.
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"The majority of mica mining takes place in Jharkhand and Bihar, but there are hardly any legal mines in these states, so the mica from these states is exported using the licenses of legal mines ...
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As the horrors of illegal mica mining grab global attention, there is pressure against cosmetic and other companies who procure mica from Jharkhand. Established in January 2017, the Paris-based Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) is now trying to safeguard the environment and eliminate unacceptable working conditions, along with eradication of ...
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A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market had resulted in at least seven children being killed since June, mining for the prized...
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Child ProtectionProgramme in MICA mining areas of Jharkhand. The Project area is part of the 3 bordering districts, namely Koderma & Giridih of Jharkhand state and Nawada district of Bihar state. The areas are marked by its difficult terrain surrounded with dense forests, poor connectivity and isolation from all sorts of basic amenities.
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Illegal Mining. Much of the mica mining that goes on in Jharkhand and Bihar is illegal and unregulated, and this has contributed a lot to child labor. In addition, the mining companies pay little attention to safety, which leaves their workers exposed to physical injuries and respiratory health hazards.
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3) Mica-based industries in Jharkhand can grow in excess of 2 to 5 times in value over following 3-5 years, growing from a current estimate of INR 246 crores to INR 490 to 1230 crores (from c USD 35 mn to USD 70 to 175 mn) and increase Jharkhand's share of Indian mica exports from 20% to 40%.
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Children Abandoning Education in Mica Mining Districts | 26 Aug 2019. The survey on 'education & well-being of children in mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar' has revealed that over 5,000 children, in the age group of six to fourteen, have left schools to work as labourers to supplement their family income.. This survey was conducted by the National Commission for Protection of Child ...
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The first mica investigations of SOMO and Terre des Hommes in 2015 estimated that up to 22,000 children were involved in mica mining in the Indian states of Jharkhand and Bihar. This was a clear indication that industries and companies using mica sourced from India are directly contributing to the worst forms of child labour.
Get priceIn 2021 'Fenty Beauty', a leading makeup brand owned by the pop-star Rihanna, was criticised for using mica from mines in Giridih and Koderma, Jharkhand (Sirur, 2021). The news brought into limelight the discourse around industries thriving on cheap raw materials, especially ones acquired from illegal mica mines through child labour.
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Jul 17, 2021For years, India has been recognised as the largest producer and exporter of sheet mica globally, with most mines located in Bihar and Jharkhand states. The two regions are among India's most impoverished. The poverty incidence in Jharkhand is estimated at over forty-six percent.
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Underground mining was legal in Jharkhand before the Forest Conservation Act came into effect in 1980. Mining companies began to wind-up as the government stopped issuing fresh leases. By 2000, mica mining ground to a complete halt. And that is when the illegal scavenging started.
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Labour conditions, as well as production, export and import statistics around mica mining in the fifteen largest non-western and five largest western mica-producing countries are investigated. Especially child labour is a major problem. ... At least twenty thousand children work in mica mines in the region Jharkhand/Bihar, India. They work long ...
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The first is with Nobel-Prize-winning Kailash Satyarthi of the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation. Together with the KSCF, Beautycounter aims to implement a program to support the local community of Jharkhand, India, a region notorious for its mica mines.
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A new policy framework has been introduced to regulate the mica mining sector. The Sustainable Mica Policy and Vision was prepared by the Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) along with a coalition of mica-using industries and civil society organisations, as well as the State Government of Jharkhand, India, where 40% of the world's mica is mined.
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Reuters | Thursday August 11, 2016. Authorities in Jharkhand will crackdown on "mica mafia" by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson Reuters ...
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27/Aug/2019. New Delhi: 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 ...
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In this article, You will read Mica, Limestone, Dolomite, Asbestos & other important Non-Metallic Minerals distribution in India - for UPSC IAS.. Mica. Mica is a naturally occurring non-metallic mineral that is based on a collection of silicates.Mica occurs in the veins of the Metamorphic rocks.; Mica is common in igneous and metamorphic rock and is occasionally found as small flakes in ...
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Deadly work. The abandoned mica mines start shimmering under the rising sun in Koderma, Jharkhand, as a group of sleepy children trudges towards the Charki mine holding their tools.
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In just the so-called Indian "mica belt" (Jharkhand and Bihar) alone, more than 22,000 children are estimated to work in the mica mining industry. While these children and their families rely on mining incomes, the dangerous working conditions have amassed global attention.
Get priceThis was published 8 years ago. India's mica mines: The shameful truth behind mineral make-up's shimmer In the hills of Jharkhand in India, child labourers mine the mica that brings sparkle to the ...
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German drugmaker Merck KGaA discovered children were collecting mica at mines used for its supplies in 2008 so cut some of its suppliers and now only sources from Jharkhand and child-free legal mines.
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A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market had resulted in at least seven children being killed since June, mining for the prized mineral which adds the sparkle to make-up and car paint. The deaths went unreported as victims' families and mine operators feared it could end ...
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Roughly 25% of the world's mica is mined in Jharkhand, India, and an estimated 20,000 children are engaged in illegal mines by Peter Bengtsen, 19 April 2019 7 year old Karulal working underground in a mica mine next to his father. Peter Bengtsen I first met Karulal, 7, ten metres below ground hammering rocks in Jharkhand.
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IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 22,000 CHILDREN WORK IN MICA MINES IN INDIA, AROUND 90 PER CENT OF WHICH ARE ILLEGAL. The survey reveals that 4,545 children in the districts surveyed in Jharkhand did not attend school. Similarly, 650 children in Bihar's mica mining area of Nawada did not attend school.
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Apr 3, 2022Ashok Varma, a social worker from the state capital Ranchi told TwoCircles that 70 percent of mica mining in Jharkhand is illegal. Varma said that "earlier, the small sized mica pieces of not more than six inches were not much in demand but with the advancement in technology these small pieces gained big importance."
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