El Bolsón: an Underground Fire in Mallín Drowning Revealed a Million-Year-Old Coal Vein

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In the midst of the recent wave of polar cold, an unusual focus of underground fire ignited the alarms in El Bolsón. The phenomenon occurred a few meters from the entrance to the natural reserve ANPRALE on the coast of the Blanco River and near its confluence with the Blue River, where vapor clouds coming out of the ground alerted neighbors and SPLIF staff. What seemed like a rebreeding of the fire Confluencia ended up revealing an extraordinary…