Folk, S.H., U.S. Patent 4,413,859, November 8, 1983.
Mining Sulphur with Foam Barrier

Comment - a clever use of foam, but the chosen composition was not up to the task.  Frasch sulfur mining has been restricted to only a single company, Freeport McMoRan, but recent corporate conversions make development of this technology difficult.

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