The road leads to the abandoned ... left by mining. The Joplin Globe reports Kansas Geological Survey scientist Rick Miller says about half a mile of U.S. 69 near the Kansas-Oklahoma border ...

A once-thriving Oklahoma town is now known as one of America's "most toxic ghost towns ... of lead and zinc mining. Picher is found in far northeast Oklahoma, on the border of Oklahoma and ...

Montana - Abandoned Mining Town, Preservation, Ghost Town 09:34 - Glenrio, Texas and New Mexico - Border Town, Abandoned Route 66, Ghost Town 10:56 - Picher, Oklahoma - Superfund Site, Mining ...

News Oklahoma's Cathy Tatom reported on efforts to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa Co. Cleanup is still estimated to be 50 years away from complete.

When the Joad family drove from Oklahoma ... rowdy mining camp, it soon turned into a deserted dwelling. And in the late 1890s, the population of Calico dwindled until it became a ghost town.

The road leads to the abandoned ... mining. Kansas Geological Survey scientist Rick Miller told The Joplin Globe (https://bit.ly/1TnHCvA ) about half a mile of U.S. 69 near the Kansas-Oklahoma ...