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  2. Picher, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State district, producing over $20 billion worth of ore between 1917 and 1947. More than fifty percent of the lead and zinc used during World War I was extracted from the Picher district. At its peak more than 14,000 miners worked the mines and another 4,000 worked in ...

  3. Tar Creek Superfund site - Wikipedia

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    Tar Creek Superfund site is a United States Superfund site, declared in 1983, located in the cities of Picher, Douthat and Cardin, Ottawa County, in northeastern Oklahoma. From 1900 to the 1960s lead mining and zinc mining companies left behind huge open chat piles that were heavily contaminated by these metals, cadmium, and others. Metals from ...

  4. How the once-booming mine town of Picher, Oklahoma ... - AOL

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    Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste. Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ...

  5. Chat (mining) - Wikipedia

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    Historic lead and zinc mining in the Midwestern United States was centered in two major areas: the Tri-State district covering more than 2,500 square miles (6,500 km 2) in southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma and the Old Lead Belt covering about 110 square miles (280 km 2) in southeastern Missouri. The first ...

  6. Tri-State district - Wikipedia

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    View of mines, plant, rail yard in Cardin, Oklahoma (1922) An unusual cluster of galena crystals from the Tri-State district. The gold-colored mineral is chalcopyrite. Size: 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm. The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The ...

  7. Cardin, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    View of Cardin mines, plant, and railyard in 1922 Fine Galena specimen from the old Kenora mine, Cardin [3] Cardin is a ghost town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 150 at the 2000 census, but declined all the way to a population of 3 at the 2010 census in April 2010. By November of 2010, the population of the town ...

  8. Body of grandma found at site of abandoned Pennsylvania mine

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    UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found ...

  9. Last women in town fight for their community’s survival as ...

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    Fifteen of the women agreed to have their portraits taken and to share their visions of the future. Teodora Tomic, 22: ‘We want to show the Zijin company that we still exist.