Miner Saekono (34) weights his baskets with sulphur at the weighting station at Pos Bundar located one kilometre from the edge of the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen in East Java, Indonesia. Sulphur is delivered here from the sulphur mines located in the crater. 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. Each miner earns approximately 10 US dollars per a day for this extremely hard work in the clouds of volcanic poisonous sulphur
Miner Saekono (34) weights his baskets with sulphur at the weighing station at Pos Bundar located one kilometre from the edge of the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen in East Java, Indonesia. Sulphur is delivered here from the sulphur mines located in the crater. 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. Each miner earns approximately 10 US dollars per a day for this extremely hard work in the clouds of volcanic poisonous sulphur dioxide. From the weighing station miners have to carry the load two kilometres more to the collecting point.
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