In Reply to: brilliant j.b.r. posted by anada on Monday, 30. July 2007 at 06:12 Bali Time:
Sulphur has many uses, including being used in fertiliser, insecticides, gunpoweder and matches.
For what I have read, the sulphur that these men mine at Ijen is collected at a factory and treated for use in medicines and also the processing of sugar.