An essential ingredient in cosmetics used by millions of people around the world. Marker is found in everything from now polish to mascara and lipstick. And where you have this earlier just like of. The behind the glitter the demand for this mineral is fueling a dangerous and deadly train. In india men women and children brave toxic dust and the constant threat of landslides in a desperate search for shards of mancha. Fun to mind that it came. From my. One i want to east investigates whos paying the price for the shimmering shine in the p. C. Business. Jack and in northern india is one of the poorest states in the country. Deep in the crevices of these cliffs men and women are rummaging through the dirt. They are mining for my. Like oh. There are thousands of mines like this brought across the rage are. They not run by big corporations aged person collects the stones for themselves before selling them on the marcus and im telling you that yeah. That that was not. 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Its used in Companies Electronic parts and in almost every beauty product in the cosmetics industry. Officially market produced in india comes from raw just done but in reality most comes from the state of jock and and bihar where my commanding happens a legally and in say course. These wild valleys which spread for miles were declared a natural reserve by jock and state in the 996 to protect them the all far shes banned the mining of maka. But these surface crashes expose the sheer amount of mining carried out by villages. Even in areas that are very difficult to access. And miners are willing to take huge risks to get their hands on the precious mineral. Oh i have. Yeah. Oh. Yeah i have. Fully faith and live in the area at age 50. Thank you but i think im. Going to finish. Cost and yet written. It because theyre only going to do about this is a year i can get going with it and i i dont want to get you was again here you want to hear i dont know getting me out. There looking around i mean even. Cameron is 35 years old and has 2 children. We follow him into the tunnel he has built. Every month around 12 miners die in mind shops like the. 15 meters underground b. S. Supply is running low. Its a man 45 degrees and the structure could collapse at any moment. But im not gonna hear too much im going to come here but they look i dont they dont tell you the local. Do you something oh you neal and i mean. The core point being. If you. Know if you knew how to cut it out i wanted that there might be a set of we knew where he. Current and hes praised robbie about 4. 00 after spending the day in the darkness here. I said. Attempt which near here make it more problem any other plot any. Good but pull out they desilva. Going to do the same or no way this is something i see you dont hear but it is i was told to be but the summerhayes just got to see the circle lick and without it. Make up the old choke way to go you. 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Every day she follows rocky pots under the hot sun to the summit of this mountain. When they arent at school the children come with her to work the youngest is just 4 years old. But i think the world that mclaughlin and people 2. That are peter is that whatever my family let me right now david im in awe that. I have a very ambiguous. Its all going to be. On the little. Bit of the white house. Given that i have to get. Off to 3 hours and they say and her children have collected enough to feed themselves for a diet. Of. The. Stock with cod run and robbie we are where their market goes once and so yeah yeah that made me think. That a creator and i didnt want both any kind of complicity because really no element of an argument. To be spawned up there for want to get together. And i were in your case its the greatest. Place is going on with no lessons. Thank god honey. Whats the lesson skilly the lesson people are just going to have a mix of down. The p. C. Go up and. Get them but they go. Back to doing affect and you have a name again fact he had to have been a. Despite being illegally sourced the market can be easily exchanged on the market through intermediaries the. At the end of each day the villages tighe what they mind to collection points where the minerals assaulted by wants to. Eat enough. To get. All the local residents direct us. The whole silence who buy their product. At 1st they refused to be filmed. But eventually one agrees to respond to our questions off camera. We film the following saints covertly. Possibly gotten. Over. To. The public and they kept it. Off. For a while. But. It. Was a lot of off. But did we could a guy who. Did call out. On out of town a little. Would you put it. That way. It would be close but. Dont. Get me to think that. Merck is one of the largest corporations in germany burning billions of dollars in the chemical cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry. For its subsidiaries such as the color rona and team run group and the main mica pigment supplies to big brands such as loreal and she now has them are way. Taking a feat in beauty. At these beauties right fair we be cosmetic manufacturers they know that per box very well. But do they know where their war material is a sourced they tell us theyre aware of the child labor issues and claim they are very concerned about its just on the phone he thought he could ship the fico is that if it was it difficult or if it did the best chef yum a funny thought if i didnt get it siani it was such a pitch so mine could be in egypt i think its already been not chipped he got a kick wasted. To be genius and all just because something that. We approach represents the eaves of the German Company merck to ask them about this supply chain. On the false. Notion that this mint could. Go on the. Companys job history books and just hope. That doesnt make it into something you feel they. Dont always want and what they say. I need to fight like a bottom up a few on the voice of the phone no physical joy at all what. Hes been saying things. That. Were the stand managers suggests we rush in a mouth to hook colleagues in germany. We do this the next day but the company declines our author of the need to be. Instead they suggest we read the Corporate ResponsibilityInformation Online claims is in. Tolerance policy but child labor and strict monitoring of compliance by its partners. To test these claims we head back to northern jock. This town. Is the hub of indias market industry. She taen is 25 years old and hes one of the exporters in town. He agrees to show us his warehouses. Full of food from out of pocket a whole load out of. His business has about 50 employees. Paul says that theyre really screening the wrong method to. Screen a. Source of ground and built it the crystals are then refined one more time before the final product is ready this is imputed to free my complex if theres widely used in piedmont and boss might be investment impeding for you michael flint. These precious market flakes are wrapped and then exported to europe and sold around 550. 00 per ton. Insists no child labor has been used in extracting this market. He says it all comes from raw just on when my come on these little and controlled by the authorities. This is all for i just found that on my account and unloading overcorrect. But not a whole warehouse is a sourcing them mica legally. In our investigation we find the docks a base that records market exports from the ports in kolkata. We see that merc get several containers awake delivered to germany and is supplied by 2 exposures based in could. Run to modi. And put cheesier in code. Earlier visit to the wholesaler he confirmed that these businesses work with the legal minds explode going to. Do. It if you will oh. Well you know you just look up. We track down these 2 suppliers to mug on the outskirts of could. They a location right next to one another. We paid them a visit with our hidden cameras. As soon as we arrived at. All the workers disappear. A man who seems to be in charge Great Service rendered. Posing as a potential buyer as we try to find out more about he supplies and clients but the man quickly become suspicious judy. Dad i am not able to discuss any beginning you know in my 100 but usually she always he she needed but your father yes. So we head next door to ranchi modi. We welcome by the form but the boss is over the fun but he cant see us. Disappointed we are getting ready to leave town when we 1st bought another factory near by. This time the boss is here and welcomes us in he says he knows his neighbors will and works with them often. Posing again as potential buys we ask him about ramsay modi and pitches here or not come out of committee out of my mind. I dont think anybody can and. The man is happy to chat and reveals the secrets about training with Foreign Countries a little less laces be on its look like they suddenly took a look im still for it but it was quite different than the other closer to the monthly so. Yes i think theyre going to like it but they have every. This time it makes. It a lot of it i mean like i mean. The look back you know i leave it in the. Process. That the public. Market comes from a legal minds in jockey the trick for some export is is to buy a license from raw just to make Good Business is appealing and to expose their products with the correct paperwork. The man then introduces us to his color. He tells us that it is also possible to import businesses to get a certificate of ethical conduct regarding child labor all you have to do is pay. Them a month. To get out but. Also set up thank you. For both of them. Also it will. Get up to fulfill your. Here is what the city bigots look like this one comes from an Indian Company the provides international certification. According to the indian exporter these papers are a mandatory requirement for International Groups like mine. Im able to buy them at any. One of. The ball i like to get a very very. Good i live in a while. Large corporations like merck conduct their own inspections but according to these boss exporters also have tricks to get around these take it in a minute. That youll be up at the helm emotionally i give myself a good cut it open to get that at the end of quarter. But if im going to. Get in and fix something what they had is an ethic that can open 3 but tell me. If. We confront the group with the discoveries we made in india. In a recent response the business sent us they Corporate Responsibility information again and insisted out information is incorrect. But back in shock and the miners are trapped. With no other options to feed their families they continue to dig through the earth in the desperate search for maka. Their only choice is between starvation and survival. Methamphetamines from me in ma a flooding into countries across asia. 101 east asks why all pharmacies caught failed to stop the myth. On how just 0. Called the to be on the well. Taken without hesitation. Fault and died for power defines our world we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we leave here we make the rules investigating exposing and questioning the use and abuse of power across the globe people in power returns to aljazeera. 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