Hell on Earth: The Sulfur Mines of Sicily
It is a heart-wrenching story of the inhumane working conditions, indentured servitude of mere children, and the deaths and crippling diseases wrought upon men and boys by the mine owners. Large deposits of sulfur were found in …
The Struggle and Strain of Mining "Devil's Gold"
In 2014 Italian photojournalist Luca Catalano Gonzaga went to Indonesia and spent ten days inside what he calls "the womb" of the Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java. Here, men toil in arduous...
Mining sulfur in Indonesia's Mount Ijen volcano
Indonesian men use long metal poles to break off chunks of yellow crust -- sulfur -- from the crater floor. The chalky mineral builds up around vents that belch out yellow smoke from inside the...
Mining And Refining: Sulfur
Sulfur is a viscous, dark red-orange liquid at 125°C, a temperature that's easy to reach and maintain industrially, meaning that liquid sulfur can be pumped around plants in heated, insulated...
Sulfur Mining & Processing: What to Know | General …
Once found in volcanic regions and on salt domes, these are no longer the typical locations used by commercial sulfur mining companies. More modern methods of sulfur production started as by-product resulting from other industrial processes, such as oil refining. The natural …
Meet the Sulfur Miners Risking Their Lives Inside a …
Miners collect sulphur on Mt. Ijen on the Indonesian island of Java. To celebrate his wife's birthday last year, Canadian photographer Larry Louie took her to a sulfur mine. That wasn't the...
A Look Inside One of Earth's Most Dramatic …
Mount Ijen in East Java, Indonesia, is an active volcano that contains an acidic lake and a sulfur mine. Deep in the crater, in air heavy with toxic gases, miners extract chunks of sulfur.
Sulfur Mining In The United States
Browse sulfur mining mines in The United States by region—including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona.
Sulfur Miners: Why Some People Risk Their Lives Entering …
Sulfur miners are tasked to break and extract large masses of sulfur from the crater floor, often requiring them to enter a volcano in search of the so-called "devil's gold."
Frasch process | Sulfur Mining, Superheated Water, …
Frasch process, method of mining deep-lying sulfur invented by the German-born American chemist Herman Frasch. The process involves superheating water to about 170 °C (340 °F) …