One Redditor has nominated Picher, Oklahoma, as “the most toxic town ... The buildings pictured are run down, and the fact that Picher is a ghost town quickly becomes obvious from the shot ...

At the site of an abandoned mine derrick ... Meanwhile, Inhofe of Oklahoma engineered the Picher buyout. The town of Picher, Ok. sits nestled between mountains of chat, a local term for mining ...

In this story: images from Picher, the largest of the three mining towns that make up Tar Creek ... zinc and lead mining region of northeast Oklahoma is now labeled as a Superfund site, the ...