The battle to save Utah’s Lila Canyon coal mine continues, with tens of millions of dollars worth of mining equipment and the fate of Utah’s most productive coal mine at stake.
Crews to flood the Lila Canyon coal mine from boreholes drilled into part of mine that has burned since Sept. 20.
Drilling is nearly complete, despite some setbacks, according to Dana Dean, who heads the mining section of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, or DOGM.The mine is still on fire. They still can’t go underground. Sealing off that area with the foam will advance that, hopefully that will allow them to get underground,” Dean told the Utah oil and gas board at its Dec. 7 meeting.
After the mine is flooded, the operators may still have to wait up to 120 days before entering to make sure the fire is out, according to Jurgen Brune, a professor of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Coal mines in the Book Cliffs region of Utah and Colorado face a risk of spontaneous combustion because of the chemical composition of the deposits they tap. Several mines in Colorado have closed down because of such fires and some continued to smolder for years.
“There is no human presence. You can’t even go in there,” he said. “The only way is to drill boreholes from the surface.”
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