"Through the burps of megaplumes and the steady puffing of hot, chemically altered water through the ocean crust, the earth concentrates its stores of precious metals. ...Such a store exists within the Troodos Massif, a...phalanx of mountains on the island of Cyprus. ...This heap of rock eventually became one of mankind's earliest sources of copper, the metal that took its name from Cyprus. ...Out of the ocean rose precious metals, out of the Stone Age rose civilization."