BURNING MINES.

Shannon News, 12 March 1926, Page 4

BURNING MINES.

FIRTHS IiAST FOR CENTURIES There have been som e remarkable instances of mines abandoned to perpetual fire. At Brule, near St. Etienne, a mine that has been on lire for ages has given the district a volcanic aspect. On the other hand, the burning- mine at Zwickau, in Saxony was turned to account. Tho fire began in the fifteenth century, and at last, in 1837, ingenuity discovered how to convey the hot vapours through pipes which warmed magnificent conservatories . Similar results were hoped ior in th e case of Staffordshire's "burning- Hills," near which snow never lay and the grass was always green, and for a time (i-opical planjts imported at great cost flourished there. But the lire died out .and so did they.