A Critical Look at Longwall Bleeder Ventilation
Brune (2013) [5] describes a numbet of mine explosions or methane ignitions that occurred in or near bleeder ventilated gobs, including those at the Willow Creek mine 1998 and 2000 (2 fatalities), those at the Buchanan mine 2005 and 2007 and those at the Upper Big Branch mine in 1997 and in 2010, the latter
