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To: GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
http://www.mail-archive.com/fact@tlk-lists.com/msg00037.html
The oldest known continuously burning fire is an underground coal fire in New
South Wales, Australia. This fire apparently started over 2,000 years ago when
lightning struck a large coal seam at a point where it reached the surface of the
earth. Today the fire is more than 500 feet (152 meters) underground, and is still
slowly eating away at the coal.

http://www.penweb.org/issues/mining/tribrev/swfires.html
http://www.penweb.org/issues/mining/tribrev/centralia.html

Just a few cool links on the subject.
12 posted on 02/15/2003 10:51:49 AM PST by Saturnalia
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To: Saturnalia
Thank you...Interesting...I believe I read about it a long time ago and forgot about it.

Thank you again for the information.

These people are still whackos.

19 posted on 02/15/2003 11:17:57 AM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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