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VIDEO: Why miners in Indonesia risk their lives to get sulfur from inside an active volcano

By Business Insider

Published : Jan. 22, 2022 - 11:22

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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. So why do they do it? In this episode of Risky Business, we head to the Ijen volcano to find out.