Since mining started in the volcano in 1968, gas explosions caused the death of 49 workers in 1976 and another 25 in 1989. Such eruptions send acid flying out of the crater and can destroy nearby ...

The traditional sulphur miners of East Java bear the scars of their labour - poisoned lungs and skin criss-crossed with burns and scars. Several hundred men work in the heart of Ijen volcano in ...

The sulfur mining company says it provides health insurance to 107 registered, ... Workers at the sulfur factory say they are paid half of what the miners earn wheezing and grunting in the crater.

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.

Several hundred men work in the heart of Ijen volcano in East Java, Indonesia. ... "There are still volcanic sulphur mines in the Andes, but these are mechanised," says Dr Oppenheimer.