The current factory is owned by Mutual Materials[5] and located on the site of American Fire Brick, founded by Mica pioneers the late 1800s.

[6] Due to its location about ten minutes by car from suburban Spokane Valley, Mica and the surrounding area have lost some of their completely rural identity as people have moved in and transformed it somewhat into a bedroom community.

Mica itself is located on the northern edge of the Palouse farming region, with its gentle rolling hills quickly giving way to the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains.

[9] Mica sits in the transition zone between three ecoregions as defined by the World Wildlife Fund, giving the area traits from all three.

A couple of miles to the south of Mica, at Freeman, the Okanagan dry forests transition into the rolling, grassy hills of Palouse grasslands ecoregion.