Miner shows a handmade sulphur tortoise and rabbit cast in molten sulphur in the sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen in East Java, Indonesia. Every morning two hundreds miners climb down to the bottom of the crater for the next load of sulphur. They fill their baskets with sulphur manually and then carry that heavy load up on feet. Extremely hard work in clouds of poisonous sulphur dioxide causes hard cough and running eyes almost immediately. However, the miners work without any protection. Just few of them have gas masks. Each miner earns approximately 10 US dolla
Miner shows a handmade sulphur tortoise and rabbit cast in molten sulphur in the sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen in East Java, Indonesia. Every morning two hundreds miners climb down to the bottom of the crater for the next load of sulphur. They fill their baskets with sulphur manually and then carry that heavy load up on feet. Extremely hard work in clouds of poisonous sulphur dioxide causes hard cough and running eyes almost immediately. However, the miners work without any protection. Just few of them have gas masks. Each miner earns approximately 10 US dollars per a day. Foreign tourists visiting the area are not allowed to climb down into the crater. However, their presence provokes miners to earn some extra money. They cast primitive souvenirs in molten sulphur and then sell them to foreign visitors.
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