El Chiflón del Diablo or The Devil's Blast (in reference to the natural draft that flows through the mine) is a mine located in

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coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as stratum, rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen ...

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area in the 1990s, the mine was shut down. Currently, El Chiflón del Diablo serves as tourist attraction.CHIFLON DEL DIABLO MINE, Copyright 2006 Lota Sorprendente.cl. January 6, 2009
/ref> Image:Chiflon_Stairway.jpg, Stairway down into El Chiflón del Diablo. Image:Mine_Entrance.jpg, Top of El Chiflón del Diablo. Image:Walking_through_Chiflon.jpg, Walking through El Chiflón del Diablo.

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