For themselves. Between 10200 rupees depending on the market prize. I have to start a whole basketful like this one here 2 on the equivalent of one euro 0. 25 apiece women work 8 hours a day of the blazing stock. Id rather work in the life and die of starvation than now. The hills of this desert like landscape on full of the mineral. You have to do is bend down and pick it up in early strips unknown to most people the roma to really is used in a multitude of everyday products. In automotive paints for example. Or as an insulating material for. Electronic components. Mostly it is used in the cosmetics industry when. Into a powder my car is found in almost every time of cosmetics. My carry here michael ware. Everywhere but who pays the price for our glittery cosmetics one. Down in the valley children are gathering my girl aged between 6 and 9 when. Its. Cold out. There of this other. But in the. Uploader their genitals the best. Of the. Villages they get a little bit of that that. Of. Also. Be it. To find out more about the importance of mica in the Beauty Industry we had to because medical trained fat and brown and there are no standards for the likes of shut down do your loreal here the big brands dont make their own products they are outsourced to retaliate manufacturers. Might try is an essential ingredient in makeup such as mr carro lusha lipstick and foundation. So what is micah maker. I just am i my kid is a shimmery material which puts the glittering to powder years and creams games half what it is you have that effect if it produces the shimmery glowing effect on the skin. Its in foundation and lipstick my cousin everything. Its a cane gradient yes and cosmetics especially in the Decorative Department id say its one of the most important. Manufacturers know plenty about the formulas of their products. But do they know where theyre wrong materials are so lost. Thats what this yeah you know miley has been wed need to scrutinize the documents every time. In principle wed have to ask our suppliers how we dont knock. The industry is aware of the issue of child labor and is trying to tackle it. Many firms rely on the information given by suppliers. And they give every role material has its own documentation this is delivered along with the order of the material for example with mica. Its documented in the computer so we know exactly which product has been manufactured from which batch of raw material. You can trace it back to the mine right exactly but does this really why are. Mica can be found all over the world. The you asked brazil canada and south korea are among the largest countries to extract it. However china and india are way ahead 30 percent of all my gear imported into europe comes from india. Officially india and mica production comes from register in practice almost 90 percent. And of the my german mind in india is from the stakes of jharkhand and be hot mike a mining and extraction are illegal there. In the ninetys the state to command these miles of wild fowl is a nature reserve in order to protect them the old guard is back and all my gun mining. However are drone footage shows a different picture. Countless craters are testimony to the extent of mining in the region it is mostly local villagers who work here even in areas that are very difficult to access. Some of the mica miners used dynamite to get into the mountainside. Others dig on the surface using rudimentary tools we try to establish contact with them we want to understand how they have been mining micah illegally for over 40 years in spite of the bank. It was not easy to spot them in this rough terrain. After searching for several days we finally came across a family. By neil is 25 years old he comes with his wife and children to collect micah every day. I hear and micah is our only option we all come here to work we can make about 302400 rupees so we can buy rice and feed ourselves. What do you want for your children. I want them to be able to study to do something with their lives i want them to have a good job. Average daily wages between 3 year 00 and 5 euros he hasnt always been a micro gatherer just 2 years ago he was working as a farmer he lives in this village of 60 inhabitants at the foot of the mines there is no Running Water or electricity here despite the brand new elektra city masters the families livelihood used to be farming but drought and Climate Change have now made most of the land barren. I eat 1st. This is my land here all of this. Can you still farm on this land. If theres no rain the nothing can grow its to drive. The. Extraction of mica has become an indispensable source of income from all the 90 percent of john cans population. The miners are willing to take huge risks to get hold of the mineral they have to dig deeper and deeper into the mountain to find it. The sounds coming from a mine near a well catch our attention. So i. Dont worry were not police ok no problem. After all what is your name right around saying if how do you manage to work down there. Return. When youre hungry you arent afraid to go down its true that its dangerous work but what else can you do we have to eat i dont have much choice i dont have much education and i dont get any state support. Is that a 5 years old and has 2 children. He agrees to let us follow him into the tunnel he has built every month around a dozen miners from the region die in these dangerous underground quarries. Almost 15 meters underground the air is very stuffy its around 45. 00 degrees and there is nothing shoring up the tunnels which could collapse at any minute. Canon and his friend ravi spend around 8 hours a day here in the darkness an ordeal that earns them around 300. 00 rupees a day the equivalent of 3 year olds 0. 80. Ive worked here for 4 months a lot of people worked here in the past even our grandfathers were digging here 40 or 50 years ago are you aware that people die due to these mines collapsing. Im scared for my life like anyone would be but what else can i do there arent too many accidents here if god so chooses it will happen but for now they havent been any disasters here. At the. Doesnt it worry you that what youre doing is illegal. The police came around 4 or 5 months ago they told us that its illegal and that we should stop they even tried to scare us a few times but how are we going to feed ourselves if we dont come here. For. The 2 miners live in 23 a town with a population of around 4000 people surrounded by michael reserves micah mining is the main source of income here 3 years ago the town was struck by a mining disaster. I needed a v lost her husband in the accident she has 4 children. To. Sit down and eat. An eater is a literate like most of the villagers and jock out. I think that its i dont know how old my parents dont remember and i dont think. Anything you know and you tell us about your husband a lot of us help you make ill. Let you out of the mike i mean my husband left to work in the mines you were in deep underground i was buried in a landslide and then. Did others die over the pot yes 3 of us. Since her husband died anita is the sole provider for her family every day she walks 2 kilometers along a stony path under the hot sun to the summit of this mountain when her children dont have to go to school they go without the youngest is just 4 years old. But the children help me by gathering the rocks. We break them up and then collect all the little starlings. I dont know and that much because there are only little stones here. If you are at the very end of the. Its all going to. Show it to me right away or ugh across. This is my daily ordeal working in the heat i can deal with my children. I wont let them starve i have to work because i dont have any land to farm. For the 3 grueling hours anita and her children have collected enough mica to feed themselves for a day. Many highly profitable businesses rely on these people slugging away. At the end of each day the valley villagers take what theyve gathered to connection points where the mica is sold by weight. Put it down here Small Traders are at the bottom of the supply chain they supply my cats are local wholesalers. Locals directors to the wholesalers who buy their goods. That are on several dozen collection points in the town center. Is the only game in town. And france the wholesalers refuse to talk to us but eventually one of them agrees to questions. Oh yeah does the micro come from. It comes from the mines. To the Small Traders bring it to you. Yes. The wholesaler openly admits that the mica is sourced from illegal mines but as soon as we start to talk about child labor he starts to hedge that wed like to ask you about children working in the mines. There arent any children working in the mines. Thats false information. That the children bring food to their parents when theyre working in the media take photos of it. A lot of time they dont know. Yet but with. The so children dont work there no. You exporter michael yourself. You know we sell it to the exporters then it goes to mumbai china germany and so on. Who buys it in germany. So he says the german Corporate Group is one of the main buyers of the micro protest in the region. Is one of the largest corporations in europe with an annual turnover of around 15000000000 euros. The pharmaceuticals giant is also a leading producer of cosmetics and Chemical Products and one of the key suppliers of Raw Materials to the cosmetics industry. Here is color owner and to supplying to major brands such as Loreal Chanel and. We are committed to labor standards human rights Environmental Protection and are opposed to every type of corruption. Max code of conduct contains a commitment to 0 tolerance of child labor it sounds comprehensive annual or did seem clued the control of relevant documentation workers ages working hours and wages as well as compliance with environmental safety and Health Standards by means a board its strictly monitor the compliant behavior of our partners but does it really work we have in the north of jharkhand this town with a population of 25000 is the heart of the mica industry this is where most of the export business is and processing plants. 25 years old is one of the towns exporters when we introduce ourselves as journalists he agrees to show us his warehouses and to talk about child labor. Going for some material the material should always be ready here next to the machine. Around 50 people work in the company after the crystals are sorted ground down and filtered they are cleaned one last time. In and you can. Do for you my health let these valuable michael flakes are exported to europe for around 500 euros the top. The young entrepreneur tells us theres a good reason his mica isnt sourced from mines that use child labor but from register the extraction is legal and controlled by both orators. This is a lot of just tiny that. And a little bit in other sectors. Legally but there. Just is a reminder around 90 percent of the indian production is not from rochester but from jharkhand and bihar. Our Research Also finds a database recording all micah exports from the port in kolkata. We see that several containers a week go to machen germany. Supplied by 2 export is based in kodama ram to modi and the cheesier and cab. Hosts ala in kodama whose source is mica from the legal minds himself mention these 2 export businesses. You export to. Know are some bikers of the exporters. To random ot to us of course and to pitch easier cheesier yes i supply them to the responsible for the export. We manage to find the 2 supply. Eyes on the outskirts of the town they are located next to one another. As soon as we arrive at the cheesier the workers in need to flee scurry off only one man who seems to be in charge greets us. Most news brenda is very ill but posing as potential buyers we try to find out more about his suppliers and clients but the man is suspicious to me. I am not able. Any beginning. But. Your father hears that yes were not getting anywhere here. At random ot were greeted by a foreman on the other end of the telephone his boss tells us that he wont meters. As were leaving the premises we spot another factory building a few meters away this time the boss is there and welcomes us with open arms we are still posing as potential buyers he says he has been working with ram to modi and parties here for years supplying them with my car for export oil thats the part theyve been doing there for a long time their mica mostly goes to american germany. And. The man is happy to explain to us how the trade with foreign buyers works the firms have export licenses. Yes theyve got an export license. They dont have any Mining Operations but they have taken the relevant documents but they have their goods from here its not legal at all. You can get the necessary permits from raw just because theres mica there. Exporters use licenses from there. Since theyre mica comes from illegal mines in jharkhand the export is have to get around the system to legalize their goods they buy the necessary certificates in rogers dom which they used to export the illegally mined mica to europe. And man introduces us to his partner. Thanks as thanks and. He informs us that businesses can obtain a document certifying they are observing the ban on child labor. So if the buyer wants a certificate how do you do it. We can get one without business name for us its no problem at all to get the papers. Thank you. Thats possible. Yes we take care of everything but if you want one of these papers it will cost you a lot the administrative process is expensive. How much does it cost. Between 2. 02 rupees per kilo. So no matter where the micro comes from its a simple matter to obtain papers to find that it hasnt been produced by child labor this is what the certificates look like this copy comes from the Indian Office of an International Certification company it certifies that the micro was produced in compliance with laws to prevent child labor according to the indian export are such certificates are absolutely mandatory for International Groups like now. We have a saying here to people who dont own cals automatically get no milk in the same way you can ask why should. You get a certificate even when you dont fulfill the requirements yourself thats the way the world works. Of course knowledge corporations micmac conduct their own inspections the tanks mortars also have their tricks to get around this. To get the american spectors come for example mr. He asked me to take him to the mines for a visit my kid got up that whole thing to get that. Mines where children work but the fun of it got that well yes children work there too but on the day of the inspection there wasnt a child inside me but you know women and no children. So far mortars rammed to modi and but she hasnt commented on the allegations. We confront mack with the results of our research the company refuses an interview in writing they refer to their Corporate Responsibility charter and explain we completely reject the use of any kind of child labor to this and we have introduced control mechanisms along the entire supply chain which we are continuously developing. Should any concrete indication of irregularities arise we will of course investigate them and take appropriate measures. Of a Global Organization responsible miter initiative is an n. G. O. S that campaigns against child labor in my car mines. They have around 50 sponsors including mac Loreal Chanel and eva share. The french representative of the Energy Agrees to meet us in her paris office. We showed her the footage we filmed in the mines in india. The heart of it f unbearable we need to act now you know this is why our organization was founded and why we want to eradicate child labor by 2022 funny families or where the child labor still exists but doesnt want International Companies to pull out of the region. Is this is that. If these companies decided to stop buying my kit from india the families would lose their only income overnight. Take the huge effort to stay there when we know all about the problem and still say. Restrains there where where of the issue and ridge joining forces to solve it. Has had to have done a systemic. But the fact is micah traders and exporters are the biggest beneficiaries of illegal mining and its hardly in their interests to change anything importers and producers rely on spot checks and indian certificates but jock hands people are the ones who suffer because they depend on the income from illegal mining. 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