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Hell & Glory. Like its name, the company's history is linked to Stora Kopparberg-a great subterranean copper "mountain" of unusually pure copper ore located among the gloomy forests of central Sweden. Toward the end of the Dark Ages, when copper was needed to arm Europe's growing armies, hundreds of men migrated to the copper mountain. At the pithead sprang up the village of Falun, Sweden's first industrial center, where the company still has its headquarters. At first each miner dug and smelted the ore himself, but by 1347 King Magnus Eriksson had granted...
...killed off all plant life for miles around. The workers' plight in the dark and sooty mines was so bad that a visitor in the 1700s wrote that "no theologian has ever been able to describe hell so frightfully." In the early 19th century, as iron began replacing copper in importance, Stora Kopparberg turned away from the riches of the copper mountain and began the diversification that has kept it alive and thriving...
...knows exactly how old Stora is. The first documented reference to it dates from 1288, but archaeologists think that mining was going on long before that. Teams of Stora experts are employing spectroanalysis to determine the age of ancient copper objects that have been found in the old mine shafts. They may go back 1,000 years...
Only recently have doctors been able to slow down Wilson's disease with drugs to leach copper out of the body, and a low-copper diet (no liver, mushrooms, nuts or oysters). How much better it would be, say Drs. Irmin Sternlieb and I. Herbert Scheinberg of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to spot the inherited defect before illness has time to develop...
...given to any suspected cases and all relatives of known victims. It takes only one drop of blood. Anybody with a normal ceruloplasmin level can forget about Wilson's disease. But anybody with an abnormally low level, the Bronx doctors say, should have a further test for copper in the liver. If this registers high, the patient is assumed to have the chemical defect and is promptly put on drugs and diet in the hope of preventing the development of full-blown disease...