Mining fires List of fires

this partial list of fire due mining: man-made structures extract minerals, ores, rock, petroleum, natural gas, etc.

1884 present  – world s greatest mine fire – new straitsville, ohio, coal mine fire ignited striking miners
1892 – fire in marie iron mine, příbram, in czech republic, 319 killed on may 31
1895 – osceola copper mine in osceola township, houghton county, michigan, caught fire on september 7, 30 killed
1911 – fire @ price-pancoast colliery, throop, pennsylvania, on april 7, 72 dead suffocation
1915 present – laurel run mine fire in luzerne county, pennsylvania, in united states, ignited when @ carbide lamp set fire timber support
1956 – bois du cazier fire (fr), belgium, killed 262 people 12 nations
1962 – devil s cigarette lighter fire in gas field in algeria, lasted 6 months before doused explosives
1962 present – centralia mine fire, pennsylvania, rendering town uninhabitable
1971 present – darvaza gas crater fire in natural gas field in derweze, ahal province, turkmenistan
1972 – fire broke out in sunshine mine in kellogg, idaho, on morning of may 2; 91 workers died smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning
1986 – fire in gold mine owned general mining union corporation in kinross, transvaal, south africa, 177 killed , 235 injured on september 16
1988 – piper alpha oil platform disaster, north sea, on july 6; 167 deaths
2010 – explosion , fire on deepwater horizon mobile offshore drilling unit in gulf of mexico




^ new straitsville mine fire . ohio historical society. retrieved 2009-11-01. 
^ newett, george a. (1896). state of michigan: mines , mineral statistics (pdf) (report). state of michigan. p. 90. retrieved may 7, 2012. 
^ history . welcome borough of throop: great place live . throop, pennsylvania: borough of throop. retrieved 15 march 2014. 
^ evander, robert ricci (september 18, 1986). mine disaster toll rises 177 . glasgow herald. p. 4.