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Combustible gas control: to late William Poundstone and late Eustace Frederick of
CONSOL Energy for providing support in discovering and applying various methane
control techniques in the mines of CONSOL Energy.
Mine fire management: to late L David Hughes of Andrew Yule and Co and late
Donald Mitchell, a friendly consultant, who taught me the elements of mine fire
fighting enabling me to fight and control many fires on my own.
My thanks are also due to Joyce Conn for typing the manuscript and Sowmya
Devraja for drafting all figures. Finally my thanks are due to Natasha Welford and
Charlotte Kent of Elsevier for their help and encouragement in completing this text.
Pramod Thakur, Ph. D.
