Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Røros Mining Town and the Circumference' has mentioned 'Copper' in the following places:
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| The mining town of Rxc3xb8ros (the administrative centre of the municipality) is sometimes called Bergstaden which means "mountain town" due to its historical notoriety for copper mining. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 General information 1.1 Name 1.2 Coat of arms 1.3 Churches 2 History 2.1 Rxc3xb8ros Copper Works 3 Culture 4 Media 5 Government 5.1 Municipal council 5.2 Mayor 6 Geography 6.1 Climate 7 Transportation 8 Notable people 8.1 Sport 9 Media gallery 10 References 11 External links | WIKI |
| The arms show an old copper symbol above two crossed mining tools in yellow on a red background. | WIKI |
| Known for its copper mines, Rxc3xb8ros is one of Norway's two nationally significant mining towns with activity starting in the 17th century (the other one being the "silver-town" Kongsberg, see Kongsberg Silver Mines). | WIKI |
| De la Barre took the city and all their mined copper at gunpoint. | WIKI |
| Rxc3xb8ros Copper Works[edit] | WIKI |
| In 1644, the general manager of the mine at Kongsberg gave permission to exploit one lode of copper in the mountains near Rauhaammaaren. | WIKI |
| 1740 onwards saw a period of greatness for the Rxc3xb8ros Copper Works with several mines yielding well. | WIKI |
| Due to the funding of the Oldenburg royal family, the scale of the Leros silver mine and copper mine expanded. | WIKI |
| High prices for both copper and zinc gave good results, but then the prices dropped and there were several years with large losses. | WIKI |
| Lorentz Lossius (1589xe2x80x931654) a German-born, Norwegian mining engineer, founder of the Rxc3xb8ros Copper Works (Rxc3xb8ros Kobberverk) Michael Rosing (1756 in Rxc3xb8ros xe2x80x93 1818) a Norwegian-Danish actor Ole Andreas Bachke (1830 in Rxc3xb8ros xe2x80x93 1890) Norwegian jurist and Government Minister Johan Falkberget (1879 in Rxc3xb8ros xe2x80x93 1967) an author, nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature Johannes Smemo (1898 in Rugldalen xe2x80x93 1973) a theologian and Bishop of Oslo 1951 to 1968 Magnus Falkberget (1900 in Rxc3xb8ros xe2x80x93 1957) a Norwegian actor and theatre manager [29] Sven Nyhus (born 1932 in Rxc3xb8ros) a folk musician, fiddler, composer and musicologist Per Edgar Kokkvold (born 1946 in Rxc3xb8ros) journalist, chair of the Norwegian Broadcasting Council Synnxc3xb8ve Korssjxc3xb8en (born 1949 in Rxc3xb8ros) a Norwegian goldsmith Even Erlien (born 1955) a politician, Mayor of Rxc3xb8ros municipality until 1999 Per Bergersen (1960 xe2x80x93 1990 in Rxc3xb8ros) a musician Dag Rune Olsen (born 1962 in Rxc3xb8ros) a cancer researcher and professor of biomedical physics | WIKI |
| the area of privileges awarded by the Danish-Norwegian King to Rxc3xb8ros Copper Works in 1646. | UNESCO |
| The town and the cultural landscapes cover a large continuous area which includes the landscape surrounding the mining town, the urban agricultural areas, and the most important mining landscapes where agricultural practices and copper work operations were carried out. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): From the time copper ore was found in the mountains at Rxc3xb8ros in 1644 until the copper works went bankrupt in 1977, with German mining technology as a starting point, employing German, Danish, Swedish immigrants, and Norwegian nationals,, a unique culture developed to extract the valuable copper in a remote and sparsely inhabited area. | UNESCO |
| The mining landscape is relict in nature, but almost no transformations or encroachment occurred after the closure of the copper works. | UNESCO |
| This is also reinforced by the rich archive documenting the copper companyxe2x80x99s history. | UNESCO |