PICHER, Okla. -- Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars since work began to clean up this former lead and zinc mining boomtown, progress is still being measured in inches or feet.

Over half of the lead and zinc used in World War I came from Picher. The miners retrieving the lead and zinc ore — during the mining boom, more than 14,000 men worked in the mines of the Picher ...

The old Picher mining fields, abandoned since the 1970s, are full of such sudden, random hollows, hundreds of them sucking the earth into mine shaft openings and giant man-made caverns.

1891: Picher Mining Field discovered. Mining of lead and zinc begins. 1914-15: Picher begins as mining camp. 1915-1930: Picher is the center of the largest zinc mining area in the world. 1916 ...

PICHER, Okla. — If every picture tells a story, the rows of nameless faces in the photographs displayed in the Picher Mining Museum tell the truth. Mining was hard, dirty and often dangerous ...

Arsonist Destroys Former Picher Mining Museum, Officials Say Authorities say a former museum building burned to the ground early Tuesday in Ottawa County. Friday, April 17th 2015, 11:04 am.

By Wally Kennedy [email protected] PICHER, Okla. — If the trend continues, the abandoned mining town of Picher might have a future in film. Picher will be featured in tonight’s episode ...

Workers with the Department of the Interior were back in Picher Wednesday, using special equipment to help search for two girls missing from Welch for 20 years.

PICHER, Okla. — A team from the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement lent its expertise recently to the search for the remains of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman. The four ...

Arsonist Destroys Former Picher Mining Museum, Officials Say Authorities say a former museum building burned to the ground early Tuesday in Ottawa County. Friday, April 17th 2015, 11:04 am.