A file photo of the gas plant at the Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland, Australia. (Supplied/Anglo American)
Anglo American’s major Australian coal mine battled on Wednesday to extinguish an underground gas fire that has been burning for five days following a “combustion event”.
The blaze erupted on Saturday when gas ignited at the Grosvenor Mine in the eastern state of Queensland, forcing the evacuation of all workers and a halt to production.
“The fire is still going and we are still working to safely seal up the last of the ventilation shafts using a variety of methods,” a spokeswoman for Anglo American told AFP.
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