The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety announced Phase One of the Corley Mine Surface Burn Mitigation Project to extinguish a coal pile that has been burning for over two decades.
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FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KXRM) — The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety announced Phase One of the Corley Mine Surface Burn Mitigation Project to extinguish a coal pile that has been burning for over two decades.
The project aims to address a 1.5-acre surface coal refuse pile that has been actively burning for over two decades due to spontaneous combustion. Construction is scheduled to begin Monday, May 19, and is expected to be completed by Thursday, Sept. 4. The pile measures approximately 35 feet tall, 150 feet wide, and 300 feet long, and is located south of Florence. The pile is the legacy of historical coal mining on site, which saw operations by 15 different mines between the 1920s and the 1990s.
