[SPAM] - Re: [TheForge] Spontanious Combustion - Email found insubject

[Jerry Smith]

Toni,

You are right about watching the hot spots in a cial
pile at the mine or porcessing plants. Infact I think
that is part of the process in making red dog. 

If coal could self ignite, we would have lots of coal
fire in the thousands of buildings that were heated
with coal furnaces during the 20th century and before.

Jerry



--- Toni Smith <tonimarie at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Coal mines do get fires in amongst their heaps now
> and then particularly
> after rain if it gets hot afterwards. I used to work
> as a cleaner on coal
> mines and they are always monitoring for any hot
> spots in the piles and also
> moisture content.
> 
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> Not that I know anything about this, but it seems to
> me that if coal
> were at all prone to spontaneous combustion then
> we'd have more coal
> mine fires... After all there are millions/billions
> of pounds of it just
> laying around in mines. If it has to do with the
> oxygen then you'd think
> open-pit coal mines would be burning up all the
> time.
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> Does anyone know it these fires are caused by the
> coal spontaneously
> combusting; or sparks or some other cause? 
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