These photos were taken by award-winning photographer Olivier Grunwald. He faced extremely hazardous conditions during the shoot and had to wear a gas mask to protect himself against the toxic fumes.
FB Top Comments | that´s bueatiful and destructive, a wonderful combination | Generally, blue flames = total combustion. | There's a mine right there and every night it's illuminated by blue electrical waves naturally for the miners before this occurred. | Brave photographer. Worth it though, this is awesome! | Its not due heat which is amazing. Chemical reactions in the lava are causing the blue color at night. | Oh man, if only there were desktop versions of these photos available...that blue lava one is gorgeous |
That's awesome!!! Incredible and a person must be real lucky to witness such beauty... | What makes the lava blue? Are there certain earth elements in the molten rock that turn it blue? | This is a portal to another dimension that large monsters will travels through, in an attempt to take over our planet. We must build great machines to battle the monsters. Time is of the essence. | The workers are nuts. Sulphur dioxide is highly toxic, and one step up is killing sulphuric acid. We have too much sulphur polluting the atmosphere as it is. |
Who say who gets dibs on the mineral rights? Inside trade if.you ask.me. | How amazing are physics ? There's always a way different environments and conditions will show up and come together, endlessly producing unique and awesome results. Bootyful. | What a beautiful sight. The Indonesian miners have that as a back drop every day. They don't wear gas masks because they can't afford them. | Somebody get me a gas mask and a plane ticket. I want to take pictures of this stuff! | Wonder if there's a mineral that could make green Lava. That would be B beautiful |
Amazing photo. Shame the story surrounding it is ugly | Sweet visuals, but props to the photographer with a gasmask. Hard enough to shoot properly with glasses, can't imagine how it'd be with a full-face mask. | sso the volcano thinks to itself "i should get rid of this sulfur quick for these minors that are always around"| I hope they have oxygen masks, with all that SO2 it must smell horrible! | It's probably on disinfo because some conspiracy nut wanted to prove some big government scheme that's polluting the mantle with chemicals or radioactive waste. |
If I'm not mistaken it was located in ijen crater, Banyuwangi, East Java. And there are only two blue flame location, Indonesia and Iceland. | This is probably one of the coolest things IN EXISTENCE.
A few years ago seeing this picture would have made me an immensely happy kid : D | I saw this in a documentary about the pacific ring of fire. The average lifespan for the Indonesian miners who gather the sulfur is 30 years on average. | BTW, this Activity Happens on place known as Kawah Ijen. Part of National Park Baluran. Located on Banyuwangi East Java. | Wow, we literally were just talking about this in my inorganic chemistry class.
Cool to see it on here too! | Yes. Great spot for a rave... perfect place for a pile of useless mdma addicts to fall in lava and do the world a favour. | Thank you Olivier for your courageous work in bringing these amazing photos to us! Keep safe! | Photogenic Lava? Wouldn't mind dying by that!
Jokingly of course | The natives do all the hard and dangerous labor for 2.5 cents per pound, yet the corporation can sell it for $4.00 per pound. 100 pounds = $2.50 to the natives and $400.00 to the corporation. Yet we never think about that when we see a pretty picture. | The miners of the sulfur don't live very long or healthy lives either... sad to work that hard for so little. | holly shit, that means the miners are mining 100 pounds of sulfur and only getting $2.50 US for it.... and i thought McDonald's was a shitty job. | Bullshit- it's where the DEA went to go dispose Heisenberg's Meth!! | what this doesn't tell you is that the sulphur miners don't have gas masks, and shorten their lives breathing in noxious fumes for a few dollars per day |
I don't think this is lava. Quote "They are monitoring the flow of molten sulphur as it pours out of pipes at 115 °C, and its subsequent crystallisation.". Other websites suggest that portions of the sulphidic alteration assemblage (advanced argillic alteration) are set on fire with torches to promote native sulphur melting which flows into man made pipes. The textures are very reminiscent of slag. | i visited this place! This is touristy place in Java, i don't know that it is really hazardous, all i can think was "wth i have to walk 5km before seeing this sulfur!" | Solid sulfur is yellow, molten sulfur is blood red, and burning sulfur is blue. Fun stuff. If only it didn't stink as much. | This what happened when the Sulfide gas going bad. Btw, Olivier is great photographer, not to mean disrespect; the condition wasn't that extreme; the guy miner in the picture went there everyday for at least 6 hours. And I even slept there (with a mask off course).
Here in Garut there are crater that can produce electricity for 3 islands of Java, Bali and Madura. | Now imagine... There must be a chance that a planet in outer space that has nothing but blue lava. | The amount of crap that's been appearing on my news feed of late I was skeptical of this but it's quite gratifying to find it to be true | Doesn't blue fire have the potential to incinerate everything it touches, because the fire is fueled by pure oxygen, and pure oxygen is a shit load more powerful than regular oxygen? | Thanks to Olivier. Because of such daredevils, we get to know the beauty of nature and detailed information. | The workers who collect the sulfur live short lives to do this, as it is the highest paid job in their area. They carry it in buckets so heavy that the bar which holds the buckets digs into their shoulders that eventually leave permanent depressions. With great beauty, as this picture is, comes great sadness and suffering. |
This is amazing but I feel bad for the workers doing dangerous, difficult work and literally getting paid pennies for it. So unfair. | I wonder if it looks purple when the sun is setting. That would look pretty cool too. | This is breath taking, I've always been interested in volcanos, love them. When I was younger I wanted to be a volcanologist very rare to see the beauty the world can give us, since the most dangerous things in the world are so pretty. | It's beautiful but miners all over the world die every day in horrible conditions making the owners rich. | Been there! The true story is those miners. The agonizing work they do to bring the sulphur out of the crater and down the massive volcano is humbling. Good news for them is the amounts of tourists who are contribution tips (cash) for photos. | I wonder how the land has changed and how on person got hurt in this. How does the toxic fumes still affect the place. | It is not the lava that looks blue but the volatiles that have been released from the magma - in this case dominantly sulphur. From the pictures you can clearly see that the lava is still red/orange. THIS IS NOT LAVA!! The miners set the area on fire to melt the sulfur which pours down the slope and concentrates it to an area of lower elevation! DO YOUR RESEARCH IFLS! |
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