Skouriotissa is thougt to be the oldest operating Cpper mine in the world.
Sources:
- http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ben-yosef330/
- William O'Brien, Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe: 5500-500 BC, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 59-63
- https://www2.rgzm.de/Navis2/Home/HarbourFullTextOutput.cfm?HarbourNR=Soloi
- Kassianidou Vasiliki. «And at Tamassos there are important mines of copper... »(Strabo, Geography, 14.6.5) . In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 34, 2004. pp. 33-46.