This Mountain Has Been Burning For 6000 Years

Burning Mountain in Australia, is the location of the world’s oldest underground coal fire, which has been burning for around 6000 years.

Smoking was first observed coming out of the mountain in 1828, and research shows that the coal seam ignited around 6000 years ago, and continues to burn the coal seam at around 1 meter per year.

There are many cracks in the surface which allow cool air to reach the fire below, this intake of air has created a blast furnace effect on the burning coal 30 Mtrs below the surface, raising the temperature of the fire to around 1700 degrees Celsius.

To this day you can see permanent thermals of rising hot air coming out of the summit, and the surrounding dirt & rocks are almost bleached white from the heat.

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[nanmillion]

Burning Mountain, at Wingen, has long been a sacred place of healing for Aboriginal people.18 The name ‘Wingen’, pronounced win-jen, is derived from the local Aboriginal word, ‘win’, meaning ‘fire

so I suspect it was observed a bit before the 1800s

[terriwetz]

A town here in the US called Centralia (in Pennsylvania) developed an underground coal fire back in 1962. Eventually everyone had to leave due to the instability of the ground and the fumes. No one knows how it started. They expect it to burn another 250 years.

[joe]

I wish they would have gotten deeper into how they determined it started 6000 years ago.

[baarni]

I visited this place 30 years ago… pretty impressive 😁

[TheHungrySlug]

Bayswater and Liddell power stations are well over an hour away from Burning Mountain, Liddell is also closed down now too. I ought to know as my in-law works at Bayswater power station.
Also that coal train is headed to the Newcastle port to unload that coal. Bayswater power stations coal comes from a completely different mine and direction than whatever you said about that coal train.
Some of us actually care about the things around and what happens in the Hunter Valley.
Otherwise you are pretty good on the camera work.

[JaskanFactor]

i wonder why that needed background music

[AussieBushKayakersCamping]

Nice little vid . we enduringly call it Smokey Hill . it is worth a bit of an explore . some nice views

[quaiacka]

Chimneys, cooling towers and a freight train going by, really picturesque😅

[Teeninfonet]

I don't understand why all this wasted energy is not able to be harnessed. Just think. 6000 years of continuous energy just being untapped. Surely there is technology available that could do that.

[jeanmuyuela]

can you not put a steam turbine on it to produce electricity?

[NoOnezZup]

modern coal power plants only release water vapor from the stacks, they have not been dirty for 50 years.

[gabrielr]

What if ancient coal fires are how humanity survived that last ice age. I think that would be interesting.

[anonymouse]

Looks like you took a walk in a few areas that have signs telling you not
And still didn't get very good shots.

[Matoakas]

A burning mountain that have and will probably keep burning for several millennia.
Ofc we humans have to put up a sign to make it a tourist attraction.

I mean. This is a perfect example of our weird, beautiful world, and the weird inhabitants living in it.

[petergplus]

Just wondering: why don't they dig up the coal and use it before it burns?

[anniegaddis]

6000 years? I don't think so, the flood would have put it out!!!

[petes]

so why aren't thtey making power from it.?

[illuminaticat]

This makes me want to play cities skylines

[TrueCROSSGaming]

surprised out ancestors didnt write about this burning fire its been around before Jesus lol

[JohnHorsley-ctrk]

There goes your zero emissions .All up in smoke, literally.