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Mining mica with child labor

Kilian Schütze-Alinsky
December 28, 2021

Mica is a group of minerals used in electronics, paints and cosmetics. Not only does it add an attractive shimmer to cosmetics, it's also a good conductor of heat and an electrical insulator. But very often children are involved in mining it.

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