Excerpt from The South African Mining Journal, Vol. 26: December 16, 1916 The ordinary general meeting of South African Option Syndicate, Ltd., was held in London in mail week. Mr. G. R. Saunders presided, and the report for 1915, which was adopted, stated that during the first six months of the year work was suspended on the Somabula area owing to the previous season's abnormal rainfall. In the latter half of the year 16 licensed diggers recovered 2727} carats of an estimated value of The Connemara mine had been let on tribute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.