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STORA KOPPARBERGS BERGSLAGS
AKTIEBOLAG.
HISTORICAL.
STORA Kopparbergs Bergslags Aktiebolag, or “Bergslaget”, is not only the oldest
industrial Company in Sweden and probably in the whole world, but it is also
at the present time, from the scope and the interdependency of its operations, the
most unified industrial enterprise existing in this country.
GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES.
Its activity is based on the possession of exceedingly rich natural resources which
may be placed into three main groups, viz. Mines, Forests and Water power. In
course of time there have been established on the basis of these, corresponding
industries: mining, together with copper, iron and steel works; forestry, with wood
industries, and, finally, the production of motive power from the Company’s own
waterfalls. The history of Bergslaget forms, at the same time, the history of the
whole of that part of Sweden, “Bergslagen”, the Mining District, where industrial
enterprise was earliest carried on and where it is still pursued on a very large scale.
In this part of the country, mining is of very ancient date and among the many
mines that have made their names famous in the course of the past centuries,
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