Great Copper Mountain was a mine in Falun Falun is a city and
the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with
36,447 inhabitants in 2005. It is also the capital of Dalarna
County... Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a
Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to
Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... , that
operated for a millennium A millennium is a period of time equal
to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and ,
year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a
particular dating system.... from the 10th century to 1992. It
produced as much as two thirds of Europe's copper Copper is a
chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is
a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical
conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed
surface has a reddish-orange tarnish... needs and helped fund
many of Sweden's wars in the 17th century. Techn