Nowandfutures blog has an interesting blog post to consider. Interest rates rose before the 1987 crash:

http://www.nowandfutures.com/images/tbond1987_vs_2009.png

Search requests via Google on how to buy gold have increased during the correction:

http://ow.ly/mM3Ir

An historical article with a very long data set soecifically on gold miners:

http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/what’s-mining-shares