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Length: 8,7 cm
Width: 6,2 cm
Height: 5,9 cm
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Local workers extract this pure sulphur from the crater of the Kavah Ijen volcano on the Indonesian island of Java. They use specially laid pipelines to transport the liquefied and gaseous sulphur from small side craters to extraction points where the mineral can cool down and solidify again. After working in the caustic sulphur fumes, the sulphur is carried kilometres over the crater rim to the collection points and sold.