In the past, it was crucial to ventilate the old mines, in order to make the miners' work possible. In most mountainous areas, the galleries where equipped with ventilation shafts. However, in many short galleries, such shafts were not bored and air removal was achieved thanks to natural ventilation. It seems that beyond a critical distance, natural ventilation is no longer efficient and the turnover of breathable air is not achieved. The work presented here deals with the physical analysis of air removal in a horizontal mine gallery, using three quantitative approaches. In the first approach, air velocity and temperature measurements were used to establish an empirical expression of the air velocity within the gallery with respect to the t...