RBC I “These mines that are burning in Colorado have been burning for many, many years, some of them over 100 years,” said Tara Tafi, Senior Environmental Protection Specialist for Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety (DRMS). Tafi oversees the department’s mine fire program, which catalogs, monitors and performs mitigation/abatement on a total of 38 underground fires in the state of Colorado, including three in Rio Blanco County.
“The lion’s…