26/05/2011 · The mining industry struggled from VIII 132,800 the mid 80s to the 90s when large scalemining IX 30,660,304 slowed down operations although it experienced a X 1,073,000 brief boom in the late 80s when small scale mining XI 898,122,300 and gold panning activities escalated in various XII 2,180,000,000 regions of the ...