Miners extract pure sulfur from volcanic crater - Fotografia de stock

Sulphur miners extracts bright yellow chunks of sulfur with metal rods whilst trying to avoid toxic gases. Kawah Ijen is the site of a labor intensive sulfur mining operation where, amid clouds of poisonous sulfur dioxide gas, miners extract and then carry heavy loads of pure sulphur in baskets on their shoulders up a steep rocky path from the crater floor to a processing plant at the base of the volcano. Location: Kawah Ijen volcano (Ijen crater), East Java, Indonesia