According to Trenchard, over 200 miners trek to the sulfur mine every day. After filling baskets with hundreds of pounds of the yellow substance, the miners climb out of the crater to sell their ...

Once the miners collect their sulfur, they haul the fully loaded baskets, weighing between 70 kg (150 lb.) and 90 kg (200 lb.), out from the crater, climbing 60-degree slopes, and then down to the ...

Striking Photos of the Men Who Work in an Active Volcano. Mount Ijen’s gorgeous vistas have captivated travelers for centuries, but in recent years, its sulfur mine has become a controversial ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered an abundance of pure sulfur on Mars after it recently drove over a rock and cracked it ...

To get some of these photos, I had to lie down on my side inside the crater, or sit on a stone or chunk of sulfur, and wait for the smoke to clear. I had initially planned to make a series of ...

Photos from inside the volcanic sulphur mines of Indonesia. AMAZING photos show the men that walk into one of the most toxic places on the planet, a volcano.

Why Does This Indonesian Volcano Burn Bright Blue? Olivier Grunewald’s dramatic photos showcase blue flames—not blue lava—that result from burning sulfur ...