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Mud volcano

October 5, 2006

This is a new one on me – a mud volcano: Java villages drown in mud lake.  Picture 130,000 m3/day of hot mud spewing out of a crack in the Earth, with “no sign of stopping”.

One enterprising villager has begun making bricks from the mud. 

It is not much of a living; no-one has bought many of his bricks yet, he says, but the mud is there, it is free and he has got to do something.

Of course, the Indonesian government plans to route the mud into the sea, thus causing a marine life catastrophe and ruining the livelihood of countless fishermen, but it’s the only thing they could think of.  I wonder about the mineral composition of the mud.  There’s enough there to consider large-scale commercial application if it contains anything valuable. 

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  1. Mrs SEB
    October 5, 2006 at 12:56 | #1

    “I wonder about the mineral composition of the mud.  There’s enough there to consider large-scale commercial application if it contains anything valuable.”  A good idea… maybe someone can collect the hot mud and EBAY it? lol!

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