Picher, Oklahoma
This is a pile of chat that has been blown into ragged formations from the wind. You drive through this ghost town on Hwy 69. No warning signs are posted that I noticed, and I thought these mountains of chat we very beautiful in an eerie sort of way. You can get right up to them and dig in them or take some home if you want as the fences are down everywhere. Curiousity got the best of me and I checked this town out when I got back home! I was shocked to say the least, especially since if I had more time I would have brought some of the chat home with me. Thank goodness I didn't. Even the air is contaminated when the wind blows.
Side note: My Grandfather worked at this mine when he was young and died from lung cancer.
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