Miners carry baskets full of sulfur out of the volcano to collection point.


Men working inside the live volcano of Kawah Ijen in East Java Indonesia one fo the last places in the world where people mine sulfur by hand carrying it out of the volcano and down to a collection point where factories purchase the yellow sulfur stones to use in manufacturing The men carry the sulfur out of the volcano in wicker baskets Fumes from the volcano are noxious and often cause the workers to choke


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