Excerpt from The South African Mining Journal, Vol. 26: Part I., September 30, 1916 The price of mercury is erratic. A broker secured 20 bottles from various sources, some under GBP20, and others even a fraction over. To import mercury it costs about GBP20 per 75 lbs. Bottle to land here, as the price in London is GBP17 158. The mines have extra good stocks of all mine chemicals, therefore there is hardly sufficient _business to test values. The strictly commercial chemical business is good in the town. And the Johannesburg and Reef hospitals, as well as the military hospitals, are always putting out very decent orders. 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.