The answer seems to be: yes.
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Dramatic footage from the time shows vast clouds of black smoke billowing from the borehole (pictured, below). This wasn’t a volcanic eruption, but the cremated remains of the drill and its steel casing as it was being obliterated by the magma, says Ingólfsson.


