Ever seen a coal face on fire?

[rovercare]

From Morwell mine fire, not taken by me, but I did go and drink a few beers and watch it when I knocked off stupidly late one night:D

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[rangieman]

Cool pics :D
Why dont they just crack the river open and let it flood again:oops2::wasntme:

[rovercare]

Cool pics :D
Why dont they just crack the river open and let it flood again:oops2::wasntme:

Different hole, that was Yallourn mine;)

[Hymie]

Different mine thats why.

[Bigmark]

Very nice Pictures did you take them.
Where is it ?

[Outlaw]

so how's that start?

[rovercare]

From Morwell mine fire, not taken by me,




Very nice Pictures did you take them.
Where is it ?

^^^^;)

[LandyAndy]

Awsome pics.
I guess it much like a peat bog fire,once its up and going like that extremely hard to stop.
Andrew

[rovercare]

so how's that start?

Don;t know with this one, it's quite happy to spontaneously combust when it sees fit though:eek:

[V8Landy]

I can only imagine the heat coming off that:eek:
When was this?

[100I]

That's impressive....
but I hope it's really out.

This one's been burning for over 40yrs;
www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm (http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm)
Coal seam fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_fire)

[rovercare]

I can only imagine the heat coming off that:eek:
When was this?

Last week

[Disco44]

Been there done that not only in faces but also in slag heaps.Yes it is hot very bloody hot but with judicious use of jets of water you do get some relief.I was a pro firefighter in Qld for 30 years around Ipswich in the south east which has open cuts old tunnel mines and all the slag heaps in the world.It was also the scene of the Box flat mine disaster in 1972 where 18 men from the Mines Rescue lost their lives.You will find that your fire started with spontaneous combustion the same heat that you get in the lawn heap at home. Nature my friends takes a lot of beating.
Cheers.
PS Garbage dump fires aren't too bad either.

[Hymie]

In one of the pics you can see the mine op's building at the top of the hill.
One of the jokes going around at the power station is that a bored mine ops worker looking to liven the day up, flicked a butt out off the balcony.

[F4Phantom]

This is all amazing stuff, I have not seen anything like it.


This is from wikipedia.

"Burning Mountain is a feature near Wingen, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 300km north of Sydney just off the New England Highway. It takes its name from a naturally combusting coal seam running underground through the sandstone. Burning Mountain is contained in a Nature Reserve administered by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).

A gentle trail from the Park carpark to the site where smoke emanates from the ground takes less than an hour, including the time taken to read the information panels along the route. The area is steeped with Indigenous Australian heritage as well.

According to Smithsonian Magazine, "Scientists estimate that Australia's Burning Mountain, the oldest known coal fire, has burned for 6,000 years."[1] Original explorers and settlers to the area believed that the smoke coming from the ground was volcanic in origin.

The fire is moving in a generally southerly direction at a rate of about one metre per year."

[rick130]

This is all amazing stuff, I have not seen anything like it.


This is from wikipedia.

"Burning Mountain is a feature near Wingen, New South Wales, Australia, <snip>
The fire is moving in a generally southerly direction at a rate of about one metre per year."

Bugger, beat me to it.

It's literally just over the hill from me, probably 5-7km south as the crow flies.
BTW, one of the mining co's is trying to get a new open cut pit approved within a couple of km or two of Burning Mt (they've already done a trial extraction) and a hundred metres of the river. :mad:

There are no pits within 50km, so not too many locals are happy as it's Horse Studs, dairy farms and sheep and cattle around here with the local marketing group promoting 'Clean and green'. I think they'll have to add, ' and a little bit sooty'......

<edit> the pile of coal from the trial started smouldering which consumed hundreds of thousands of litres of water to contain, right in the middle of the drought. Ever seen how much water a pit uses to suppress dust and wash stuff down ? Our water supply is marginal at best, and they wonder why a lot of the locals are against it......

[Landy110]

VERY IMPRESSIVE
I'm no firey but why don't they park foam truck up the top and smother the whole face?
Steve.