<p> The famous French photographer Olivier Grunewald has recently made several trips into the sulfur mines in the crater of the volcano General description the Ijen located in East Java, Indonesia. There he did with the help of special equipment breathtaking surreal pictures of this place in the moonlight, lit by torches, and blue flames of burning molten sulfur.<br />
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<p>Olivier Grunewald has been kind enough to share these pictures. </p>
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<p> The descent into the Caldera of the volcano General description the Ijen where there is a lake of sulfuric acid with a width of one kilometer. On its banks produce sulfur: </p>
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<p> Acidic gases and steam are allocated from the yellowish chunks of sulfur: </p>
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<p> Hot streams of molten sulfur in the volcanic crater. Sulphur melts at a temperature slightly above 100°C: </p>
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<p> Work breaks off the piece of solid sulfur. Then carry sulfur to the weighing station: </p>
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<p> Night. Miner with torch is located inside the crater of Ijen volcano General description, looking at the flow of the liquid sulfur, a glowing supernatural blue color: </p>
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<p> Miners here work in hellish conditions during the extraction of sulphur. Photographer Olivier Grunewald was described here as the smell is unbearable, requiring a mask or a gas mask for safety. Some of the miners wear them, the others work without them: </p>
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<p> Molten sulphur drips from the ceramic tube, which condenses sulfuric gases from the volcano into a liquid. Then it cools, hardens, and extracted it working: </p>
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<p> A worker collects sulfur, and in the background, molten sulfur burns blue flame: </p>
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<p> Molten sulphur is burning on the surface of solid deposits. Miners will extinguish the flames before his departure, to prevent loss of sulfur: </p>
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<p> Miner, then gray starts his way back from the volcano: </p>
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<p> Through a dense cloud of steam and acidic gases is a miner in a mask with a torch. Next to the burning blue flame streams of liquid sulphur: </p>
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<p> These workers also loaded the basket and going back: </p>
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<blockquote> Photographer Olivier Grunewald: &quot;the Feeling is that you are on another planet&quot;. Grunewald lost one camera and two lenses to the harsh conditions of the crater. When shooting was finished, he threw all his clothes in the garbage: the sulfur smell was so strong that it will be impossible to get rid of: </blockquote>
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