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Treece lead and zinc mining ghost town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Old bottlesAlso reported: Wheat cents, Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, miners' tools, carbide lamp parts.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1917-2012 Tri-State lead and zinc mining town
Treece grew as a Tri-State Mining District town producing lead, zinc and iron ore, and with neighboring Picher it once counted over 20,000 people. Lead contamination from mine waste led to a federal buyout of residents in 2010 and 2011, and the city was legally dissolved in 2012.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
lead-contaminated chat piles and soil
Superfund site, contaminated creek water
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