The new electric line allowed production to increase, with a daily average of 110,000 tons of ore being moved over the company's own railroad.
Yields surged to an average of 27 tons an acre, about 10 times those in the Northeast.
An average of 1,700 tons a day is recycled now.
In 2005 the mine produced an average of 3,755 tons per day on a 6 days per week schedule.
Between 1979 and 1987, an average of 1,000 tons of fish were caught or produced annually.
By the fall, the airlift was bringing in an average of 5,000 tons of supplies a day.
But at an average of 25 feet and seven tons, the minke is small - for a whale.
It was made out of 186 stones weighing an average of 2.2 tons each.
The businesses that use his machine each collects an average of four tons a month.
That compares with an average of 22 million tons in the preceding two quarters, which were down slightly from the 1988 period.