Photo Essay: A Day in the Sulfur Mines of Kawah Ijen
At the eastern end of the island of Java lies the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Here men work in perilous conditions to extract suffer from the bottom of the caldera. Ceramic pipes funnel the sulfur until it condenses and solidifies into pools that can be broken up. The miners carry these loads of solidified […] petapixel.com »