WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:06.200 Hundreds of miners work inside an active volcano here in Indonesia. 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:09.900 Battling toxic fumes all day long. 00:00:12.100 --> 00:00:15.300 The running sulfur, which locals called Devil's gold. 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:18.200 Working conditions. Here are so dangerous. 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:21.400 Many miners, don't live past 50 years old. 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:23.800 Am I say I'm a star. 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:31.100 Miners like, missed our carry up to 200 lb of sulfur on their 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:34.700 backs up and down the Steep cliffs in the Stars. 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:40.200 Been doing it for 30 years yesterday. 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:47.600 Our little thing for matches and rubber cosmetic products. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:58.800 What makes our sugar white, Schnatter, Pasadena oil and gas refining 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:00.000 making volcanic. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.300 If these miners are still working running about 12 to $17 a day. 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:10.200 Because in this remote part of Indonesia, 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.500 it's one of the better paying jobs. 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:25.800 On the phone in the risky business. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.200 Tell me the key to my car. 00:02:02.300 --> 00:02:03.800 This is as far as mr. 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:04.900 Can go on his bike. 00:02:06.900 --> 00:02:08.400 There are no roads to the crater, 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:10.300 so he has to walk the rest of the way. 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.300 It's a two-mile hike up to the ridge of Eden volcano. 00:02:21.100 --> 00:02:24.700 He takes only his basket and a crowbar down into the thousand 00:02:24.700 --> 00:02:25.500 foot deep crater. 00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:30.400 Compania de Gasolina. 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:36.700 Here. He faces the volcanoes extreme environment. 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:40.100 The air can reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:45.400 Any Works near one of the world's most toxic volcano Lakes? 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:47.800 Blossom. 00:03:18.700 --> 00:03:33.300 Go as a player and a possum eating at the mall. 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:46.100 The first comes from deep inside the volcano and is channeled through 00:03:46.100 --> 00:03:46.900 these pipes. 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:55.900 Sonic near me. 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.900 Well, mining company pay, it's a Jon Dee Graham. 00:03:59.900 --> 00:04:02.400 Be owns, the license to run the mine. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.200 The miners are freelance contractors, so they have to pay for 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:06.900 their own gear. 00:04:06.900 --> 00:04:11.500 And many can't afford gas mask instead that use handkerchiefs 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:15.500 or towels dipped in water to keep the Sulfur powder from sticking. 00:04:16.900 --> 00:04:19.100 The second type of smoke is even more dangerous. 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:23.400 It comes from the volcanic, gases below the acidic Lake and it 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:24.000 can be deadly. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.400 Does miners, see big clouds of thin white smoke coming from 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:29.700 the lake? They have to evacuate? 00:04:34.300 --> 00:04:35.900 Bloody mucus, plug. 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:38.600 That's why I missed our needs to get here. 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:42.100 So early the winds pick up through the day or more white smoke 00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:42.800 towards the miners. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.600 Those types of smoke, have lasting health effects. 00:04:47.300 --> 00:05:00.200 I want to open a decent caquinho. 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:09.700 30 socket cattle production. 00:05:09.700 --> 00:05:11.300 This is how it works. 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.200 When the super hot smoke hits the cooler air outside, 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:18.000 it condenses liquid and drips off the pipe. 00:05:19.300 --> 00:05:23.500 Mariah Dugan, what do Natasha to check and see if you can. 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:34.100 I would advise and cools, the sulfur will turn yellow, 00:05:34.100 --> 00:05:36.000 and miners can begin chipping. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:36.700 Off blocks. 00:05:38.100 --> 00:05:40.700 It's a solvers two colors that give it the name, 00:05:40.700 --> 00:05:41.400 Devil's gold. 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.100 Minors, use their bare hands to move these blocks. 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:48.700 Although touching solid Sol for frequently, can cause rashes 00:05:48.700 --> 00:05:52.200 and blisters missed our says, that as long as it's cool and yellow. 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:53.600 That's a fine to touch. 00:05:55.200 --> 00:06:00.100 Lalaloopsy on my calendar. 00:06:05.900 --> 00:06:09.600 Free pandemic. The miners could extract the 25 times daily, 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.400 but since 2020, they've been working in two, 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:15.900 separate shifts, the socially distant, that's lower the minors 00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:18.500 capacity. Only ten tons of sulfur a day. 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.600 Once he fills his baskets, mr. 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:24.600 Hoist them up on his shoulder to hike back, 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.600 but that's sulfur is not a light load. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:37.600 That's about 154 lb missed our himself ways just 132. 00:06:38.700 --> 00:06:40.800 Name a fungal deposition. 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:47.500 Some of the younger miners can carry up to 200 lb in one load. 00:06:51.500 --> 00:07:06.500 Nepali to decide to separate egg from blonde. 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:10.900 Malabar. 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:19.900 Some do the treacherous hike in flip-flops. 00:07:40.900 --> 00:07:42.400 Once he reaches the rim of the crater, 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:46.100 the star can transfer the sulfur to his trolley and begin the 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:49.500 two miles back and he'll do this trip a second time today. 00:07:53.300 --> 00:07:55.100 Lansing bar. 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:07.900 Pettijohn. D Green Day, The Mining Company. 00:08:07.900 --> 00:08:11.900 Also owns this weighing station and the factory where the silver 00:08:11.900 --> 00:08:12.400 end up. 00:08:16.100 --> 00:08:19.400 At the factory workers, boil the sulfur and run it through 00:08:19.400 --> 00:08:20.400 a series of filters. 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:23.600 They have to remove any contaminants like sand or dirt, 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.700 then they poured out onto the factory floor to cool. 00:08:26.700 --> 00:08:31.400 The sulfur is loaded into sacks and send to Sugar factories, 00:08:31.400 --> 00:08:31.600 nearby. 00:08:32.800 --> 00:08:35.000 It's processed into sulfuric acid. 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.300 The world's most commonly used chemical. 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:41.100 It's using everything from matches fireworks, and gunpowder 00:08:41.100 --> 00:08:43.800 to detergent paper and batteries. 00:08:43.800 --> 00:08:47.000 It's what makes sugar white and it's an essential ingredient 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:49.700 in Rubber products, and he can wine making 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:55.000 But 98% of the world sulfur comes from oil and gas refining. 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.300 It's a byproduct of refining and oil companies are required 00:08:58.300 --> 00:08:59.900 by law to process. 00:08:59.900 --> 00:09:04.400 It safely. What's created is a lot of pure silver Acura TL that's 00:09:04.400 --> 00:09:07.600 necessary for making products like fertilizer today. 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.700 The sulfur industry from oil and gas is worth almost 13 billion 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:15.900 dollars and is expected to keep growing and it's left. 00:09:15.900 --> 00:09:20.100 Natural mind and volcanoes unnecessary, especially since mine. 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:20.900 Sulfur is in. 00:09:20.900 --> 00:09:23.500 As pure, they can be acidic or contain sand. 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:27.700 That Eugene is one of the only places left in the world where 00:09:27.700 --> 00:09:29.300 people still my soul for this way. 00:09:29.300 --> 00:09:31.100 So why did they do it? 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:33.900 Despite the danger for the mining company? 00:09:33.900 --> 00:09:37.400 It's easier and cheaper to get sulfur from egin for the silver 00:09:37.400 --> 00:09:40.900 miners. The pay is a lot more than other jobs on the island 00:09:40.900 --> 00:09:42.000 such as farming. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:48.900 USANA concert in Pomona on Saturday to go. 00:09:48.900 --> 00:10:03.400 I didn't want to fool a 212. 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.000 A mining company pays on the way to their lows. 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.300 I get about $0.09 for kilo with two loads mystara can make $17 00:10:18.300 --> 00:10:22.000 a day. The mining company did not respond to a request for comment 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:23.300 and white miners are paid. 00:10:23.300 --> 00:10:25.500 So little for what's considered, one of the most dangerous 00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:26.500 jobs in the world. 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:31.300 Another possible reason this mine is still open tourism. 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:38.100 At night, visitors flock here to see the blue flame from The 00:10:38.100 --> 00:10:40.600 sulfur gas during the day tourist. 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.600 Hike up to take in the vistas protected with our gas masks. 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.400 They watch minors work without masks of Their Own. 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.000 Some miners are now becoming tour guides are making so far souvenirs 00:10:52.000 --> 00:11:01.200 the most keep working as they always have on your car. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:14.100 Yes. Banana color. 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:46.200 Deep ketchup. Number on 280, seney. 00:11:53.500 --> 00:11:55.600 Piano to the end of the day, 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.600 missed our returns home to eat dinner with his family and rest. 00:12:00.100 --> 00:12:01.400 Egin looms over them. 00:12:01.400 --> 00:12:04.700 A symbol of how the star provides for his family's lives. 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:09.400 While it's slowly takes his heavy weight to carry on his shoulders.