In this story: images from Picher, the largest of the three mining ... For decades after the mines were abandoned, these chat piles served as playgrounds for children, rifle ranges for gun ...

Picher, once a thriving lead and zinc mining ... town completely cut off if U.S. 69 collapses. At the site of an abandoned mine derrick, Randy Barr tosses a rock into a mine shaft filled with ...

OTTAWA COUNTY – The Tulsa Medical Examiner’s office is in the abandoned community of Picher on Saturday after human bones ...