Excerpt from The South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Vol. 34: March 24th to August 25th, 1923

It is expected that the Knight Central will close down next week. And the last annual meeting of the company is called for May 8 next. At the end of 1022 the company held cash and investments and cash assets, after allowing for liabilities, to the' value of The amount pay able by the company under the Miners' Phthisis Act, 1919, on ceasing operations is estimated at In the course of his annual report, the Consulting Engineer, Mr. J writes In accordance with the decision made by the Board in 1017 to discontinue development, the operations of the mine have again been confined to extract ing ore already developed; a limited amount of internal work only having been done, amounting to 405 feet for the year mg to the dislocation of operations resulting from the strike, which extended from the l0th January to the 17th March, a serious loss, amounting to was sustained during the first three months of the year The profits during the succeeding months, however, more than balanced this loss, and a final profit of was obtained The working costs again showed a very material reduction of 4s 10d per ton milled, the average for the year having been 183 10d. As against 23s. 8d during 1921. In this average of 18s. 10d are included the costs for the first three months of the year, which were abnormally high owing to the strike. The average costs during the last six months were 168 6d. Per ton, which very satisfactory figure indicates the efi'icient manner in which the mine has been managed Owing to the depleted state of the ore. Reserve, the yield per ton for the year showed a further decline of 0 6 dwt. There re mained in the ore reserve at the end of the year tons of a value of 5 6 dwt. Per ton. The cleaning up of the old workings and the reclaiming of pillars in the upper levels has been continued during the year, and the tonnage obtained from this source has been a large factor in maintaining profitable operations. Such work, however, has only a1 limited scope, and, with the small tonnage in reserve, it has become more and more difficult with each succeeding month to maintain the output. The mine is expected to carry on operations until the end of March, By that time all the payable ore in reserve at the end of 1917, together With other tonnage since developed, will have been worked out, and the company's milling operations will terminate The following tabulation summarises the salient features-of the work of the past three years'

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