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In the most seemingly ordinary places in the world there are sometimes surprising phenomena. One of these phenomena - Kawah Ijen sulfur mine in Indonesia, where you can find an amazing lava unusual neon blue. View this mine is so striking that watch this show for hours.





Kawah Ijen - part of the Ijen volcanic chain, group stratovolcanoes on East Java, Indonesia. Kawah Ijen crater depth - 200 meters, its bottom is the world's largest sulfuric acid lake turquoise. Because the lake is mined sulfur - miners carried out of the pit laden gray hand basket.

When the sun rises from the depths of the crater rises a fever: liquid sulfur is flowing from the edge of the lake, under the influence of heat flashes blue flame - sulfur fountains reaching five meters in height. Although the lake is not too hot to sulfur ignites spontaneously, it lights up when the miners to throw torches.





Miners working in appalling conditions - they have virtually no safety equipment. They are waiting for the sulfur flow out of the volcano through a man-made passages, it is then collected and taken away.

Sulfur is on the market about 680 rupees per kilogram (about five US cents). Miners extracted from 80 to 100 kg per shift - sulfur are taken every 24 hours. Kawah Ijen Quarry - a source of the purest Indonesian sulfur, which is used in the food and chemical industries.





Visit this beautiful place is not so easy: sulfur smell is disgusting, and when a strong wind blows, then under the influence of air flows from the volcano dense gases rise and fall directly into the lungs. As miners can work in such conditions, without at least some equipment, remains a mystery.



Photographer Olivier Grunewald in 2008 was trying to photograph a blue flame, and lost a camera and two lenses. During filming, he wore a mask, and then had to throw clothes. But if you still want to see it, try not to fall into the lake - it is pure acid.





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