<P> Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed . San Francisco is gone . </P> <P> This is a partial list of fire due to mining: man - made structures to extract minerals, ores, rock, petroleum, natural gas, etc . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1884 to present--World's Greatest Mine Fire--New Straitsville, Ohio, coal mine fire ignited by striking miners </Li> <Li> 1892--Fire in the Marie iron mine, Příbram, now in the Czech Republic, 319 killed on May 31 </Li> <Li> 1895--Osceola copper mine in Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, caught fire on September 7, 30 killed </Li> <Li> 1911--Fire at the Price - Pancoast Colliery, Throop, Pennsylvania, on April 7, with 72 dead by suffocation </Li> <Li> 1915 to present--Laurel Run mine fire in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States, ignited when at carbide lamp set fire to a timber support </Li> <Li> 1956--Bois du Cazier fire (fr), Belgium, killed 262 people from 12 nations </Li> <Li> 1962--Devil's Cigarette Lighter fire in a gas field in Algeria, lasted almost 6 months before doused with explosives </Li> <Li> 1962 to present--Centralia Mine Fire, Pennsylvania, rendering the town uninhabitable </Li> <Li> 1971 to present--Darvaza gas crater fire in a natural gas field in Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan </Li> <Li> 1972--Fire broke out in the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, on the morning of May 2; 91 workers died from smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning </Li> <Li> 1986--Fire in a gold mine owned by the General Mining Union Corporation in Kinross, Transvaal, South Africa, with 177 killed and 235 injured on September 16 </Li> <Li> 1988--Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, North Sea, on July 6; 167 deaths </Li> <Li> 2010--Explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit in the Gulf of Mexico </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1884 to present--World's Greatest Mine Fire--New Straitsville, Ohio, coal mine fire ignited by striking miners </Li>

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