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The sulfur industry is worth al

most

13 billion dollars

world

wide, but the workers who risk their lives to extract it from an active volcano earn only 17 a day, because there is demand for this important sugar ingredient and it is a pretty decent wage. for the area. In other booming industries you'll see the same trend, from harvesting acai for our smoothie bowls to harvesting our table salt. People risk their entire lives to make money in these billion-dollar industries. We travel around the

world

to see what it's like to work. One of the

most

dangerous

jobs

on the planet in East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners brave deadly smoke to extract sulfur or devil's gold.

Sulfur is used in everything from matches, fireworks and gunpowder to detergent paper and batteries. It's what makes our sugar white. Working conditions inside the Egen volcano. They are so

dangerous

that many miners do not live more than 50 years. Foreign ERS like mistar carry up to 200 pounds of sulfur on their backs up and down these steep cliffs and mistar has been doing it for 30 years overseas, this is as far as mistar can go. Go on your bike, there are no roads into the crater, so you have to walk the rest of the way. It's a two-mile hike to the crest of each volcano and you just carry your basket and a crowbar into the thousand-foot-deep crater here. you face the extreme environment of the volcano, the air can reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and you work near one of the lakes IDE of the most toxic volcanoes in the world and there's the smoke, oh hi, the miners are independent contractors so They have to pay for their own equipment and many cannot afford gas masks, but instead use handkerchiefs or towels dipped in water to prevent sulfur dust from sticking to the outside, but the smoke from inside the volcano is crucial for the production of sulfur.

This is how it works when super hot smoke hits the cooler air outside. liquid condenses and drips from the pipe as it solidifies and cools the sulfur will turn yellow and the miners can begin breaking blocks it is the two colors of the solver that give it the name Devil's Gold once it fills its mistar baskets He carries them over his shoulder to walk back, but that sulfur is not a light load, it is about 154 pounds. Miss Star weighs only 132. Strange when I said that once she reaches the crater rim, Mastara can transfer the sulfur to her cart and begin the two miles back to uh the mining company pays by the weight of their loads, they get about 9 cents per kilo with two loads.

Miss star can earn 17 per day at the end of the day, mastar returns home to have dinner with his family and rest. Egen looms over them as a symbol of how Mistar maintains the life of his family as he slowly takes the great weight of it onto his shoulders. India is one of the largest producers of salt in the world and approximately a third of it comes from the depths of this desert. Today, thousands of families live here cultivating salt by hand. They are known as the Agarias and have been salt producers in this harsh environment for generations.

Each year they arrive on the dry, cracked land of Kuch's Little Run in October, and his wife Carries everything they will need to live in the desert for the next six months, including supplies to make clothing for their huts. Farm tools and all your food and water. First they have to find the key to this whole operation. Salt water underground. They dig 30 feet in the mud to get there. then they will install these government-subsidized solar panels, they will power the pumps that bring salt water to the surface, the foreigners will build the salt flats, these huge salt flats, the roller will help them flatten the Earth, they will make 10 to 20 salt flats, all by hand .

It's backbreaking work, so farmers will release the salty water from the wells that flows between the containers. In the last container, the water reaches the 24 salinity necessary to form large salt crystals over the next few months as the water evaporates. Salt crystals form. They start raking early each morning to avoid the hottest part of the day, but working here can be really dangerous. The life expectancy of a farmer is about 60 years because they not only face extreme temperatures, but they also face the subsoil brain, which is highly acidic and is also exposed to subsoil brine, which also takes many skin problems.

Strangers become blind because of years of bright sun reflecting off the white landscape and because they are too far from the nearest village to access medical care. it is often too expensive um foreigner despite these conditions the agarias live and work here until spring when the salt is finally ready they harvest three times the first produces better quality salt they leave in April usually with more than a thousand tons of salt and Most of the farmers we spoke to said that the market price for salt this season is between two and four dollars per ton, which means that in a good year a family will earn around two thousand dollars for months of work. exhausting that is well below the poverty line in most of the world's acai.

Coming from the depths of the Amazon rainforest, people here risk climbing 50-foot-tall palm trees to harvest the foreign fruit. These berries have become one of the most popular so-called superfoods in the US and they don't come cheap. A bowl can cost up to $15 and although the berry has grown in popularity in recent decades, small farms like this one haven't really been able to capitalize on the inches. His family farm is about 70 miles from Balang, the state capital of pear trees, where more than 90 percent of pear trees grow. of the acai produced in Brazil the only tool they use to climb is a single piece of rope called pecania before they were made of leaves today Lucas's son, Luis Fernando, will climb the trunks are so thin that the climbers have to be light at the end The tops swing from the tree to reach several clusters.

Going down can also be dangerous, especially if you are carrying a large knife and holding an arm full of branches. Dropping them could damage the fragile foreign fruit. Lucas and his family harvested 53 baskets like these in 2021, earning them an income of approximately $950, that is, just 20 cents per pound, while a pound of processed acai sorbet can sell for seven dollars or more in The US part of the problem is that Lucas has to sell his acai as soon as possible because the fruit spoils quickly, leaving farmers who don't have processing machines with little leverage to negotiate again.

Traders bring the acai to balang by boat. It's a race against the clock to sell the fruit before it spoils, so markets run overnight. Some of the acai is transported to processing facilities like Northern Acai Every day 22 tons of fruit are turned into frozen pulp The acai that most people outside of Pará are familiar with The indigenous people living in the Amazon have harvested and consumed acai for centuries, perhaps even millennia, the Brazilian government estimates that there are almost 6,000 kilombola communities in the country in a 2013 study found that approximately 75 percent still lived in extreme poverty myself is limestone and the miners They risked their lives to extract it from the white quarries of Egypt.

The valuable rock is at the center of a huge industry and is used to make everything from cement and glass to plastic and tiles, it is even what the great pyramids were made of. but digging up and cutting up these precious blocks is really dangerous for these guys. Every day begins in Nina City at dawn and this is where The Danger begins. These trucks are not for passengers. Workers have been injured from falls along the winding journey. The trip to the mountain takes about 40 minutes. Then it's time to get dressed, as these miners are self-employed and have to purchase their own protective equipment frequently.

Homemade cloth masks, gloves and sunglasses are all the miners have to protect themselves, they grab their tools and descend into the shaft. First, the miners have to install these two rails, two separate machines, they roll along the tracks, they cut the stone into perfect cubes under the outside, the machines move. quickly they are very heavy and noisy the workers shout at each other to warn that the machines are nearby because the real danger is those saws a quick step is all that separates the miners from the sharp blades the miners are responsible for fixing the machines when breaking and sharpening the blades by hand, that is also a risky job.

The cutting machines used to have covers, but they fell off years ago. Now the blades are exposed as the machine's cut stone kicks up rocks and an eerie white cloud of limestone dust if there is no wind. miners disappear in it like ghosts, it is easy to inhale it to find dust and if breathed in long enough it can cause a lung condition called silicosis, health damage, illness and deaths in these mines are widely reported, but at one point it is not There are official figures. life expectancy here was only 45 years. Zaki says many mine owners will offer less than 200 as a competition between workers.

The perfectly cut stones that have not yet been sold are piled up, but these blocks have already been purchased, so the miners throw them directly into the truck and have perfect aim, if they are lucky, they could get a three-dollar stipend for food and tea, in addition to their daily salary of six dollars, climb slippery limestone cliffs risking drops of up to thirty meters, are searching for a A rare nest made of bird saliva found inside caves in Southeast Asia in the Philippines. The gatherers have been known as bouchadors for centuries. Alvin Villarendo's family has risked their lives to collect swifflet nests.

Just two pounds is worth two thousand nine hundred dollars and it's used. To make a soup that the locals believe is good for your health, Alvin and his crew meet at Bengalan Point on Mighty Gate Island and head to Nabath Island, it is one of the seven thousand islands that make up the Philippines and can only be reach it by boat. They get off the boat and walk barefoot on the slippery and sharp rocks, doing the latter while climbing, tightening the bamboo with a rope and then fixing a piece of wood called kalitang to the ladder. um foreign use, little to no support, just your hands. and feet this is the most dangerous way to climb in the regional language it is known as a crab Alvin has been close and dislocated his shoulder the island is completely remote if there is an emergency there is no way to get help quickly um well Strangers detecting the nests Alvin uses a spray bottle full of water to loosen them, then they gently remove them from the cave walls (my favorite) after harvesting the Boucher doors they clean them to remove any feathers or branches and then divide them by their hardness and color While the Local council buys the nest from the bushidoors at a regulated price and sells them to private customers around the world, they are the main ingredient of bird's nest soup, a delicacy in China and around the world.

A ball can cost up to a hundred. dollars in recent years the demand for nests and bird's nest soup has increased after two days of nest hunting the season is almost over abroad, just see excerpts from some of our stories of big deals and risky deals, Click here to see the rest of these videos