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Gorgeous Pics of Minerals.Great: Volcano,Guy Seeking Sulfur

science.nationalgeographic.com — Variety of nice shots. Especially good (pic # 2): speck of a guy collecting sulfur on "smoky" fumes-filled face of Java volcano. Mix of pics: long shots; mineral close-ups; & aerial of mineral-extraction operation.

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  • Totz83, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6"Guy seeking sulphur" sounds like a weird personals ad
  • javier182gt, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Yeah, nice aerial shots. Too bad there are a lot of sulfur miners that get paid very little for going up to these mountains and collecting sulfur. Tricky tricky stuff.
    • jezsik, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Very little? You don't know the half of it! Those poor buggers haul up fifty pound baskets of rock sulfur on every trip; up the mountain, down into the volcano, back up and back down. Doing at least four trips a day and making around five bucks ... per day. Those guys are unbelievably fit, but their life expectancy is waaaaay below average from the sulfur fumes. Not to mention what those fumes do to the ol' skin complexion. Yikes.
  • alekkss, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1|-)
  • ckremser, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0WOW... it's some rocks.
  • Duositex, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Uhh.. does anyone else have NO idea what the title and/or description mean? Was this translated from Japanese?
  • HelloNavi, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3Those photos rock! HAHAHA! GET IT?! Oh man...
  • apackofmonkeys, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I cannot parse. headline:this, is hard.
  • lisaawesome, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2"Minerals have existed since the very beginnings of the Earth"
    Is this a photo gallery for retards?
  • travelina, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1You might also like these incrredibly gorgeous portraits of nudibranchs (aka sea slugs) on the National Geo site. They've got eye-popping color, and they're toxic!
    Phenomenal photo gallery here, by famed NG underwater photographer David Doubilet:
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibran ...

    Story here, by Jennifer Holland:
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibran ...
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