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Residents in the village of Carmacks, Yukon, living near the former Tantalus Butte coal mine say they want something done about coal fires burning underground.
Although the mine was abandoned in the late 1970s, coal seams have since been burning deep underground. Residents in the village complained that smoke and fire were escaping from up to six different adits, or mine entrances, this summer as fires burned closer to the mine's surface up from two adits in previous years.

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