A major Australian coal mine battled on Wednesday to extinguish an underground gas fire that has been burning for five days following a “combustion event”. The blaze erupted on June 29 when gas ignited at Anglo American’s Grosvenor mine in the eastern state of Queensland, forcing the evacuation of all workers and a halt to...

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