Pooja and her friends - some as young as five years old - will spend the rest of the day shimmying into small, man-made tunnels in embankments all around the area. Armed with ice picks, hammers, and baskets, they carefully chip into the sides and backs of the small pits to loosen rock and dirt before carefully hauling it out of the mine. The children take turns dumping their baskets over a rudimentary sifting tool - a large piece of netting with a wooden frame that reveals handfuls of mica, a shimmery mineral composite that's been forming underground for hundreds of years. Source: Adapted from: The Makeup Industry's Darkest Secret Is Hiding In Your Makeup Bag, Refinery29 Children comprise as much as 62% of the overall mining workforce, researchers found, with miners descending deep into the ground to cut the mica by hand. The work is dangerous, with children complaining of aching muscles, open sores and respiratory problems, according to the report, published this week by Terre des Hommes and the Dutch Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. Source: Adapted from: Children as young as five make up most of Madagascar's mica mining workfor Guardian What is a connection you can make to these recent article excerpts and the Industria Revolution?