A small mica splitting-and-grading unit in the Koderma belt that sells certified, child-labour-free electronics- and cosmetic-grade mica to B2B and export buyers, capturing value that today leaves the district as raw scrap.
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The business takes raw mica — Koderma is the 'Mica Capital' and most output leaves as unprocessed scrap — and runs it through splitting, grading and refinement into electronics-grade and cosmetic-grade lots that command far higher prices than raw mineral. It draws on the district's mica reserves and its existing mica processing cluster, and turns raw scrap into ground mica and high-purity grades. The defining constraint is not demand but provenance: Koderma has a documented history of child labour in mica collection, and serious electronics and cosmetics buyers now require certified traceable, child-labour-free supply chains. Earning and holding that certification — alongside the grading skill itself — is what unlocks the higher price; the hard parts are the compliance work and the time it takes to build verified export relationships, not any weakness in the market. Buyers are pigment and mineral-makeup formulators, paint manufacturers, and electrical-insulation OEMs who increasingly buy only audited sources.
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