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Although charcoal would have been necessary for the smelting of the ore, it appears that our ancestors may have used olive oil as the fuel for founding the metal. I'm curious as to the technology used to attain the temperature necessary to actually melt it, as burning oil gives quite a cold flame. I suggest it may have been that they impregnated charcoal with the oil; I guess this would have been quite successful and would cut the wood demand by anything from ½ to ¾.
For those not aware of it, the words Cyprus and copper are the same in ancient Greek. It is not known whether the metal was named after the island or vice versa. Vast amounts of the metal have been mined here from prehistory to within the last few decades.