In this article some lesser known avenues have been explored in the complex network of the earliest European mining and the origins of primary copper metallurgy. The following can be regarded merely as preliminary conclusions: The origins of copper mining can be understood as a continuation of the mining tradition developed in Europe from the Paleolithic period and for that reason, autochthonous. Cooper ores were exploited by the application of the same mining technology in the Early Eneolithic, from the time when the processing of copper was already introduced. The gradual introduction of the copper was a long process, as is shown by single finds of metal objects from contexts earlier than the Early Eneolithic. In South-East Europe, as mentioned above, finds of small copper tolls have already been recorded in the Cris and Karanovo III groups. For these reasons mining is an inseparable phenomenon of the earliest copper metallurgy of South- East and Central Europe. An understanding of this mining is, at the same time, another positive contribution to the standpoint of the local evolution of Early Eneolithic copper metallurgy in this part of Europe.