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FALU COPPER WORKS.
the Falu Copper Mine, or, as it was called in olden times, “the Great Copper
Mountain”, in the province of Dalecarlia, is the principal one. Legends, traditions and history
have become part and parcel of this old mine which was the starting point of the
immense enterprise into which the Company has finally developed. Even as early as
at the beginning of the Middle Ages the subterranean wealth of copper, silver and
gold was drawn forth. Its most flourishing period, when it was the greatest
producer of copper in the world, was in the seventeenth century, and although since that,
time it has yielded less and less of this metal, the mine continues to be worked even
at the present day. Now, however, the development of science and technics has
given rise to an entirely new industry based on the products from this mine.
Today it is the supplies of pyrites from the venerable mine that form the chief object of
the operations, the subsequent manufacturing processes embracing the production of
sulphate of copper. ferrous sulphate, sulphuric acid and other chemical compounds, all of which
products make the Falu Mine and Copper Works a most extensive industrial enterprise.
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