Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Deoghar and Hazaribagh are some of the major cities and industrial areas in the state. Jharkhand has around 40 per cent of the country's mineral resources such as coal, iron ore, copper, uranium, mica, bauxite, granite, limestone, silver, graphite, magnetite and dolomite.

Mica occurs in Kodarma mines in Jharkhand. ... India is one of the foremost suppliers of mica to the world. Micabearing igneous rocks occur in AP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan. Mica Reserves in India. Andhra Pradesh (41 per cent) Rajasthan (21 per cent)

These two areas make up India's "mica belt," where the mica mining industry remains a key contributor to the regional economy. In 2005, The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) partnered with local nongovernmental organization (NGO) Bachpan Bachao Andolan, now known as the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), to begin to address some of the issues surrounding child labor in the ...

Mica is the name of a naturally occurring group of silie minerals. It is derived from the Latin word micare which means to shine, to flash or to glitter. Mica is used throughout the cosmetics and personal care industry, as well as in paints for cars. In February 2017 an ITV investigation found the use of child labour in India to source mica.

 · According to SOMO, a quarter of the world's mica comes from the eastern Indian states of Jharkand and Bihar, where more than 22,000 children work in mica mines.

 · Mica scavenging in Jharkhand destroys lives and environment. Broken nails are possibly the least of all the horrors of mica scavenging in and around abandoned mines in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand. Exploitative child labour, death by suffoion in mining shafts, severe health hazards such as tuberculosis for the impoverished ...

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The global mica market valued at USD 567 million in 2018 is expected to reach around USD 727 million by 2025. The History of Mica Mining in India. Human use of mica dates back to prehistoric times. Until the 19th Century, large crystals of mica were quite rare and expensive due to limited supply in Europe.

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Similarly, it is estimated that in the two largest mining provinces in India, Jharkhand and Bihar, 22,000 minors work within illegal mica mines. In these two areas it is said, traders who control the mica mines have a set rate they give to families who lose loved ones while mining, of 33,000 rupees (about £330) .

The work is heavy, unhealthy and dangerous. Mica is used in luxury items, such as makeup, phones and cars. It makes objects shiny. It also conducts electricity well. Over a quarter of the world's mica comes from the Indian regions of Jharkhand and Bihar. A few legal mines exist, but most are mined illegally, often by children under age 14.

 · German company Merck, which supplies mica to cosmetic brands around the world such as L'Oreal, admitted to sourcing the raw material from exporters in Jharkhand and Bihar. However, the company said that the minerals were extracted from legal mines.

some observations on uraniumcopper relationship in the surda copper mines and their bearing on the zoning of mineralization in the singhbhum thrust belt, bihar. Journal Article Sharma, K Proc. Indian Nat. Sci. Acad., Part A 36: No. 5, 31930(Sep 1970).

 · The first such annual report of its kind, the Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) has released the latest information around the sustainability and child labour problem in India's mica sector, and RMI's efforts to address it. We take a look in this Editor's Spotlight.

Bihar is, so far, contributing the largest amount of mica from its innumerable mines loed in the Hazaribagh, Giridih, Monghyr, Ranchi and Gaya districts. Among all the mines, Kodarma in Hazaribagh is perhaps contributing the largest amount of good quality mica. Singbhum and Palamau districts also have some mica fields.

 · According to SOMO, a quarter of the world's mica comes from the eastern Indian states of Jharkand and Bihar, where more than 22,000 children work in mica mines. Mines in these states are often illegal and unregulated—it's common to see children crouching on dusty floors, sifting through crumbling powder for hours on end, looking for little clusters of mica.

By far, the largest deposits of Mica in the world are in India, and specifically in the remote, impoverished states of Jharkand and Bihar in the northeastern part of the country. This region has been dubbed the "Mica belt", and accounts for roughly 25 percent of all Mica sourced in the world.

 · Madan Pratap (right) died in a Mica mine collapse in June. In the mudandbrick village of Chandwara in Bihar in eastern India, a father's grief laid bare the ugly reality of the illegal mining ...

White mica Scrap is generally found in Bihar region in mines like Bhana Chatkari. White Mica is Best suited for the production of high quality Mica Paper Board. This white mica scrap is not good for calcination as it cannot sustain its properties at a temperature of more than 650 degree Celsius.

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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 indiion that industries and companies using mica sourced from India are directly contributing to the worst forms of child labour.

 · 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.