In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." They risk respiratory illness and death to haul 200-pound loads of sulfur up crater walls.
When you’re in the mine, the sky is covered by gases. Day and night are confused. You feel suspended in time. Sunarto, 41 years old, carries a load of sulfur out of the Kawah Ijen crater.
The name of the river translates to "bitter water" in the Javanese language. Kawah Ijen is also home to sulphur mines where miners risk their lives to extract precious sulphuric rock. These are ...
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