And the city's population has rebounded after falling to almost 7 million in 1980.
Now, the population has rebounded to a 100-year high.
The coal industry recovered and the town's population rebounded to 588, then fell again to 403 in 1990.
Occasionally, in fact, the population rebounds to a level even higher than it was before being hunted.
The community's population had declined to 40 by the mid-1920s, but rebounded to around 60 in the late 1940s.
From a low of about 800 in the early 1960's, the population has rebounded to 12,000 today.
The population has since rebounded some to 122 in 2006.
In the late 1930s, the population had rebounded to 125.
However, in 1883, tin was discovered near town and the population rebounded.
By 2000, however, the population had rebounded to its current level of approximately 70.