[1] It is famous for one of the most valuable postage stamps in the world, the Treskilling Yellow from 13 July 1857, Kopparberg's wooden church (voted No.

Kopparberg lies on a major north–south road, 80 km north of Sweden's sixth most populous city, Örebro.

The population is ageing as the young people move away to education, jobs, and a more entertaining life in the larger cities, Örebro University and the Kopparberg Brewery being the major attractions for many.

Kopparberg lies in a mountainous mid-lower-central district of Sweden named Bergslagen, after the regional laws and customs prevailing there.

In the 1961–1990 reference period the nearest weather station at nearby locality Ställdalen indicated a maritime type of a subarctic climate.

Summers are very tempered, compared to both the Mälar Valley to the south and east and central Dalarna to the north.

The warmest recorded temperature of 34.2 °C (93.6 °F) is still high by Swedish standards, courtesy of the unpredictability of its far inland position.

[citation needed] Neighbours from the eastern side of the Baltic Sea are attracted in the summer every year by the available harvests of lingonberries, a small, ground growing version of cranberry, and by bilberries.

[citation needed] Annually, in late June or early July, the town is host to a gold panning contest.

Opera på Skäret is home to a cultural association, and is situated in the northwest part of the town, where it hosts concerts and events.

B. Nilsson AB's Bandstål (band = strip, stål = steel) manufacturing and sales is still in business today, situated in the business park to the south of town, called Bångbro (bång = bang, bro = bridge), so-called because it lies south of the bridge, in an area notable for industries whose work involved repetitive banging noises.

More recently, one of the town's best established and most significant employers is the Kopparbergs Brewery, owned by two brothers, which manufactures various alcoholic drinks.

[citation needed] More recently, a foreign company, called QXL, came to do an Internet bid-on-products until deadline auction service (eBay-type) business from Kopparberg.

PC Express bought the firm and used the warehouse, but later moved the business to Sweden's capital Stockholm.

According to current research, an ancient meteor landed approximately 14.5 million years ago to the west-northwest of the city.

Copper was discovered on the surface no later than 1634 on the hills that now form part of the town of Kopparberg, itself, and stretch out to the north.