In Europe during the 17th and 18th century, where did they obtain Sulphur to produce gunpowder?

by SyndieSoc

I imagine they would need to be near volcanically active regions, or are there sources of Sulphur far away from Volcanoes?

NerevarTheKing

This question was answered in-depth in another recent post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/qgbts1/how_true_is_the_common_argument_that_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Please read this. The basic answer is that you are correct. Sicily was a particularly abundant source.

u/Valkine