Lead-Zinc Mining
Description:
Photograph of a chat pile, the rock waste remains after lead and zinc have been extracted from hard rock, during the grinding and flotation system. Note the erosion of the pile. This material covers some 5,000 acres in Ottawa County. Wind and water move this finely ground rock to adjacent areas. OK-2769-11.
Date:
May 24, 1967
Creator:
Bennett, K. C.
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Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society