JohnMawer: Gunung Ijen's burning sulphur
JohnMawer: Sulphur gatherers on Ijen
JohnMawer: Various devices used to cool the liquid sulphur so that it can be collected
JohnMawer: Various devices used to cool the liquid sulphur so that it can be collected
JohnMawer: Pipes are installed, presumably to ensure the moten sulphur is acumulated into one area for ease of collection.
JohnMawer: The acidic and warm crater lake of Ijen. (Acidic as a result of the sulphur dioxide from burning sulphur forming sulphurous acid.)
JohnMawer: Gathering the solidified sulphur
JohnMawer: Indonesia - collecting sulphur from Ijen
JohnMawer: Gathering sulphur. The pipes on the right seem to serve to concentrate the flow of sulphur.
JohnMawer: Crow bar used to break the sulphur into manageable lumps
JohnMawer: Gathering sulphur by hand
JohnMawer: Arrangement of pipes and barrels presumably to accumulate the sulphur
JohnMawer: Breaking up the lumps of sulphur
JohnMawer: Rock coated with powdered sulphur
JohnMawer: Typical loads to be carried out of the volcano
JohnMawer: Loads ready to be carried out of the volcano.
JohnMawer: Start of the trek out of the volcano.
JohnMawer: Crater and lake
JohnMawer: Hauling sulphur out of the crater
JohnMawer: Hauling sulphur out of the crater
JohnMawer: Crater and Llake
JohnMawer: Transferring the load to carts
JohnMawer: Transferring the load to carts - sulphur collected from the crater of the volcano Ijen
JohnMawer: Gunung Ijen crater and lake
JohnMawer: Gunung Ijen crater and lake
JohnMawer: Hauling up the empty truck to collect sulphur
JohnMawer: The sulphur carried down the mountain