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Resister User ID: 1461638 United States 01/13/2014 07:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nice find OP "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. " - Thomas Jefferson in 1787 |
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Fhirinne (OP) User ID: 44686749 United Kingdom 01/13/2014 06:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear ya there. The first thing I wanted to do was hop a plane and go sit and watch it and perhaps do a bit of choking and coughing like but wow You are the CEO of your own wellness. You need to take back your health from the disease-care system |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 49488681 United States 01/13/2014 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes really beautiful. But hard to read about the miners there. Just brutal. The miners at Kawah Ijen work in pretty bad conditions – with little or no safety equipment. They monitor the molten sulfur as it flows out of pipes (from inside the volcano). Then they gather the coagulated sulfur, load it up and transport it to the side of the crater. The crystals are sold at about 680 rupiahs per kilogram (that’s about 5 US cents). The miners haul up about 80 to 100 kilograms per load, two loads every 24 hours. The sulfur mined at Kawah Ijen is among the purest in Indonesia, and used in the food and chemical industry. I think the crater is amazing, but its beauty is a little bit marred by the treacherous working conditions of the miners. Many of them are grossly underpaid. They end up losing their health, and sometimes even their lives in the process of getting out the sulfur from the suffocating mines. But does not take away from the beauty of these volcano photos- thanks OP! |
Fhirinne (OP) User ID: 44686749 United Kingdom 01/13/2014 08:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes really beautiful. But hard to read about the miners there. Just brutal. Quoting: Sloane The miners at Kawah Ijen work in pretty bad conditions – with little or no safety equipment. They monitor the molten sulfur as it flows out of pipes (from inside the volcano). Then they gather the coagulated sulfur, load it up and transport it to the side of the crater. The crystals are sold at about 680 rupiahs per kilogram (that’s about 5 US cents). The miners haul up about 80 to 100 kilograms per load, two loads every 24 hours. The sulfur mined at Kawah Ijen is among the purest in Indonesia, and used in the food and chemical industry. I think the crater is amazing, but its beauty is a little bit marred by the treacherous working conditions of the miners. Many of them are grossly underpaid. They end up losing their health, and sometimes even their lives in the process of getting out the sulfur from the suffocating mines. But does not take away from the beauty of these volcano photos- thanks OP! I know what you mean there, so many things I could say but I hope something good for the miners there comes from this story been published. You are the CEO of your own wellness. You need to take back your health from the disease-care system |
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