Sulfur Mining in Indonesia
Every day sulfur miners in Indonesia risk their health and their lives, just to survive. With limited job opportunities available, men turn to mining, which pays slightly more than farming. Here's more on the story. For more news and videos visit ☛ http://ntdtv.org Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C Mining is a brutal, labor intensive job, wherever you are, and whatever the substance. Asia's biggest volcanic crater, Kawah Ijen in East Java, is home to a few hundred miners who risk their lives daily to hand-mine sulfur... all for about two and a half cents a pound. Sounds like a pittance to many, but the money is more than the average pay in the vast Indonesian archipelago. The enormous natural crater formed lake, where the sulfur is mined, is 220 yards deep and filled with steaming acid water, some 2,500 yards above sea level. The miners walk miles to get to the mines at the top of the crater, wearing hardly any protection. Some cough but they are paid by the weight and ignore the sulfurous smoke that turns their eyes red with water and blocks their noses making breathing a chore. [Sukirman, Sulfur Miner]: "The only job I can get is here. What can I do as there is no other choice?" The experienced ones take up to 200 pounds in baskets straddled over their shoulder on each trip to the collection center, some 12 miles below. Some 10 tons of sulfur are mined daily and each miner earns an average of $6 a day. [Arifin, Sulfur Miner]: "They pay us cash and it is higher than any farming job here. A farmer can get $1.60 a day but here we can get $6.40 a day, depending on our strength." Though the mining is back-breaking work and extended contact with sulphur dioxide could cause permanent lung damage, few of these miners will complain for fear of not being allowed to work on the crater.
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I don't understand why they don't use a wheel barrel ...or is that cheating
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I want to work here
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i would have last 0 days.
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could the person in the beginning be ANY more monotone? haha
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What is the use of sulfur? I don't know about this! I need to learn!
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It's more of a volunteer bounty for acquired sulfur. The people paying them don't have them on payroll.
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stupid
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RIP english also whether its heavier than doing weights obviously depends on how heavy the weights are
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Sulfur doesn't smell at all. Hydrogen-sulfide smells like fart or rotten egg.
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doesnt sulfur smell like farts?
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My job scrubbing toilets beats this. Dang.
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That must fucking hum
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they should build some kind of crane system to make it easier but that would take alot of jobs from these men.its too bad that they have to put their health/lives on the line for six bucks a day.at least give them respirators and heavy-duty shoulder pads.
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I want to buy these guys gas masks and goggles, but they would probably sell them because it would be worth more than they could make in a week =(
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Go get a Radiation suit while mining sulfur. Or punch a creeper to get free sulfir.
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Libertarians love shit like this.
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I took a photo of him and then I gave him 50 000 Rp and he was so smiling and lucky and me too...:)
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@Perditionswrath, lol you stupid? it's not the sulfur itself that is dangerous, you are well informed there, but there happens to be a shitload of toxic sulfur compounds in the air at that crater (like SO2, H2S ect, ect....)
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LOLOLOL awesome
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