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  2. Ijen - Wikipedia

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    Ijen and its sulfur mining was featured in the 1991 IMAX film Ring of Fire, and as a topic on the 5th episode of the BBC television documentary Human Planet. In the documentary film War Photographer , journalist James Nachtwey visits Ijen and struggles with noxious fumes while trying to photograph workers.

  3. File : Sulfur mining in Kawah Ijen - Indonesia - 20110608.jpg

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  4. Category:Sulfur mines - Wikipedia

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    Sulphur mines in Finland (1 P) U. Sulfur mines in the United States (3 P) Pages in category "Sulfur mines" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.

  5. Sulfur production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The sulfur is recovered in the form of sulfuric acid. Sulfur recovery from smelters rose from 544,000 metric tons in 1970 to 1,403,000 tons in 1980, due to tightened air emissions standards. Sulfur recovery peaked in 1988 at 1,610,000 tons, then declined to 730,000 tons in 2014, coinciding with a decline in the U.S. metal smelting industry.

  6. Sulphur, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Sulphur is named for the sulfur mines that were operated in the area in the 1900s. In 1867, Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, an experienced geologist who was prospecting for oil and other minerals, conducted exploratory borings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and discovered sulfur in the caprock of a salt dome.

  7. Lercara Friddi - Wikipedia

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    It is located on the Palermo – Agrigento route, at a height of 670 metres above sea level. Lercara Friddi was home to many sulfur mines. When they closed in the 1950s; many of the miners immigrated to Belgium, to work in the coal mines.

  8. Aucanquilcha - Wikipedia

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    The sulfur mine is notable for being the highest mine in the world at 5,950 metres (19,520 ft) [28] and the highest permanently inhabited area. [8] An expedition in 1935, part of the International High Altitude Expedition, found that miners lived at an altitude of 5,300 metres (17,500 ft) in the town of Quilcha and reached the higher mine on foot.

  9. Lake Burdur - Wikipedia

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    The decrease in water levels (because of construction of upstream dams and unknown causes), the increase of sedimentation (from catchment erosion), organic pollution (from food processing and Burdur City raw sewage waste), and inorganic effluent (from a sulphur mine) represent long-term threats to the integrity of the lake.