Is it legal to collect at Picher lead and zinc mining ghost town?

Gray area. Land status not confirmed; most property was bought out under a federal relocation program within the Tar Creek Superfund site, so confirm ownership and access rules before detecting.

What can you find at Picher lead and zinc mining ghost town?

Wheat cents, Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, mining company tokens, miners' tools, carbide lamp parts, trolley and railroad hardware, bottles

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Picher lead and zinc mining ghost town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Nails and fittings

Old bottles

Also 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), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1918-2009 Tri-State lead and zinc mining city

Picher was a center of the Tri-State lead and zinc district, reaching 14,252 people in 1926 and linked by interurban trolley to Joplin. Undermined ground, toxic chat piles and child lead poisoning put it in the Tar Creek Superfund site; after a federal buyout and a 2008 tornado the city was dissolved in 2009.View source →