{"id":54047,"date":"2024-07-03T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54047"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:20:19","slug":"australian-coal-mine-battles-three-day-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54047","title":{"rendered":"Australian coal mine battles three-day blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A major Australian coal mine battled on Wednesday to extinguish an underground gas fire that has been burning for three days following a &#8220;combustion event&#8221;.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blaze erupted on Saturday when gas ignited at Anglo American&#8217;s Grosvenor Mine in the eastern state of Queensland, forcing the evacuation of all workers and a halt to production.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; a spokeswoman for Anglo American told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we are very close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anglo American said it was working with state health and safety authorities on the next steps to ensure a &#8220;safe restart&#8221; to the mine, which employs about 1,400 people.<\/p>\n<p>The re-opening is likely to take &#8220;several months as a result of the likely damage underground&#8221;, it said in an earlier update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major Australian coal mine battled on Wednesday to extinguish an underground gas fire that has been burning for three days following a &#8220;combustion event&#8221;. The blaze erupted on Saturday when gas ignited at Anglo American&#8217;s Grosvenor Mine in the eastern state of Queensland, forcing the evacuation of all workers and a halt to production. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1893],"class_list":["post-54047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-australian-coal-mine-battles-three-day-blaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}