An underground fire burning along a coal seam in Colorado was discovered earlier this month, and officials said it's been ablaze for more than a year. The fire was found Oct. 9 in the San Juan ...

It is called the Coal Seam Fire. U. S. Forest Service personnel encountered smoldering ground cover Oct. 9 in the McPhee Park area about 10 miles northeast of Dolores. No above-surface points of ...

The excavator broke chunks of coal from an underground seam and dumped them onto a pile of dirt and rock, where a bulldozer mixed it all together. A tanker truck occasionally blasted the hot coal ...

A defunct mine tapped into a coal seam, or underground strip of coal, that snakes through that stretch of Boulder. Active mining hasn’t occurred in the area for decades, according to Graves ...

Languages: English. Crews have begun a long-awaited project to extinguish a coal seam fire that has been burning underground on Marshall Mesa, south of Boulder, Colorado, for over a century.

In November, crews hired by Colorado’s natural resources department descended onto a popular south Boulder trailhead, digging up patches of an underground coal seam that had been smoldering ...