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Home Supermen: sulphur miners

Supermen: sulphur miners

MINING SULPHUR

Immensly heavy work for the sulphur miners at Kawah Ijen

Miners hack chunks off from solid sulpher stones with steel bars, braving extremely dangerous gasses and liquids with minimal protection. In the irritating and corrosive atmosphere of the crater, people's only protection is...

Read more about How sulphur is taken near the crater lake.


At the rim of the volcano Ijen

SULPHUR FACTORY IN LICIN

Locals prefer work at the factory instead of at Kawah Ijen

Where is work more heavy? At the slopes of mount Ijen or at the factory where just 11 people process all the sulphur that is brought in that day, in two shifts only? ... The sulphur is being melt in the factory to purify...

Read more about The sulphur factory in Licin.

 

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