A
total of nearly thirty-one million carats, to which may be added, in
order to make a fair estimate of the entire production of South Africa
in the ten years, five per cent, for thefts and the product of the
alluvial deĀposits and other sources; a grand total of thirty-two and a
half million carats. At the same time (1907), the De Beers group alone
had in sight above the lower levels