India's mica mines: the shameful truth behind mineral make-up's shimmer
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Mohammed Salim Ansari is worried he is in trouble. Crouched, alone and barefoot, and carrying a sharpened stick he uses to hack at the wall of earth in front of him, he thinks we have come to take him from his family.
Frightened, almost in tears, he is mollified when we explain we only want to talk about his work, and he quietly goes back to his crude mining in a small hollow of rock.
The low hills of Jharkhand shimmer in the afternoon sun, but all that glitters is not gold. The precious mi...
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