Шведский медный бум 17 века
Шведский медный рудник Фалунь открылся около 1300 года. Это был крупнейший медный рудник в Швеции, и он производил две трети потребностей Европы в меди.
Крупнейшее промышленное рабочее место в Швеции, на пике своего развития в 1650 году шахта произвела целых три килотонны необработанной меди за один год.[1
Golden era
In the 17th century, production capacity peaked. During this time, the output from the mine was used to fund various wars of Sweden during its great power era. The Privy Council of Sweden referred to the mine as the nation's treasury and stronghold. The point of maximum production occurred in 1650, with over 3,000 tonnes of copper produced.[1]
The mountain had been mined for nearly half a millennium towards the end of its golden era. Production had intensified in the preceding decades, and by 1687 the rock was crisscrossed by numerous shafts and cave-ins were not unusual. Great effort went into producing maps of the mine for navigation, but there was no overall organization nor any estimation of the strength of the mountain. In the summer of 1687, great rumblings could be heard regularly from the mountain. On Midsummer's Eve of that year, the dividing wall between the main pits and the foundations gave way, and a significant portion of the mine collapsed. This could easily have become a great catastrophe, killing and trapping the hundreds of men working in the mine, had it not occurred on Midsummer's Eve, one of the two days of the year on which the miners were not working, the other being Christmas.[
"1600s - The period of greatness". Falu Gruva. Retrieved 2016-08-24.