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Hyperbole? Drive through the desolate towns around Picher, Okla., and you might think differently. This is eco-assault on an epic scale. The prairie here in the northeast corner of the state is punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with...
...flood of cases may swamp other companies as well. A court-ordered study released last week said Eagle-Picher Industries of Cincinnati, a former asbestos maker, has been devastated by claims and is likely to become insolvent by the end of 1992. The company has 64,000 claims pending, with 20,000 more being filed every year. As part of his overall plan, Weinstein hopes to pool money from several companies, including Eagle-Picher, to help the firms resolve their claims...
Hickel's first targets include four large steelmakers (U.S. Steel, Republic, Jones & Laughlin and Interlake), a Kansas mining company (Eagle-Picher Industries) and the City of Toledo...
TROUBLED MINING INDUSTRY will soon drop into deeper hole because U.S. Government will stop stockpiling lead, zinc. With zinc prices down to 10? a lb. v. 13½? three months ago, Southwest's Eagle-Picher Co. will lay off 1,100 workers by closing its lead and zinc mines in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Other big mine shutdowns are on their way in New Jersey, Nevada, California...
...when high-grade, low-cost ores made everyone richer every day in every way. Today the situation is almost exactly reversed. As against cheaper foreign production of richer ores. U.S. veins are becoming poorer while labor costs have soared to an average $18 a day. Last week, when Eagle-Picher Co. closed its zinc operations in Oklahoma and neighboring states, domestic miners chalked up another example of their deepening trouble. Other trouble spots...