Mica
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Mica".
Nov 5, 2026
Episode 35 - The Ghost of Cock Lane
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9:18Lee JonesHOST
to draw it out.
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9:21Lee JonesHOST
But then the other type of Isinglass, which is a sort of colloquial... sort of name for it, I suppose, is mica, which is a mineral.
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9:35Peter MitchellHOST
Mica is the kind of little glinty bits in granite.
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9:38Peter MitchellHOST
Right.
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9:38Peter MitchellHOST
So it's basically, it's kind of like obsidian.
Nigeria's K-Economy: The Luxury Upper Class, The Absent Middle Class, Poor Majority
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52:10CarloAUDIENCE
So, mica has a global market coming.
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52:12CarloAUDIENCE
So, at what positions, we don't need to outcompete the world, but at what position do we have leverage in electric cars industry? So, Nigeria can decide to choose that, okay.
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52:22CarloAUDIENCE
Mica in different countries is a top-layer soil.
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52:26CarloAUDIENCE
It's a solid mineral that's available in abundance here in many states.
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52:32CarloAUDIENCE
So how do we put...
Ep 52: A Collection of Collections
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19:24TashaHOST
Was it a quartz mine? Is that right?
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19:26MerlinHOST
Mica.
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19:26TashaHOST
Mica?
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19:27MerlinHOST
Yeah, so it was where they got the mica for the stove glass in the 1800s.
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19:33MerlinHOST
Mica's the most
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19:34TashaHOST
brittle type of rock, and it makes everything sparkly.
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19:40MerlinHOST
And finding it in huge sheets is really, really cool.