On May 22, 2019, Rich wrote
(in article <iy9FE.22711$o64.4885@fx19.iad>):
Now a ghost town, with 20 residents who refused to be bought out. The huge
piles in the background are tailings from lead and zinc mining, which caused
widespread and destructive neurological contamination. Much of the town had
been undermined (literally), and many structures were in danger of collapse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
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