"From Mine to Metal: A History of Zinc in Eastern Pennsylvania ... history of zinc production in Eastern Pennsylvania and how the region and the town of Palmerton was once among the largest ...

The land where present-day Palmerton is located was forest and sparse farmland until the late 1800s. Despite popular misconceptions, the Palmerton area has no usable zinc ore deposits. When what ...

Let the Journal know at [email protected] “Mid-1950s - AEC leased the New Jersey Zinc Company property and established a uranium ore stockpile on the property in the vicinity of Palmerton ...

Most people in Palmerton know Dr. Howard Cyr ... industrialist Samuel Wetherill had created the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zinc Company to both mine and refine the zinc ores. One of his early ...

PALMERTON, Pa ... residents may have been exposed to lead from air pollution. “The zinc company they did all kind of mining, zinc and then they have the coal banks down in Aquashicola ...

A hazardous waste processor in Palmerton ... Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, according to the announcement. AZR is the corporate successor of Horsehead Corp. and reclaims zinc ...

The soil at a Palmerton day care and a borough park have tested high for lead, the Pennsylvania Department ... cadmium and zinc in the soil at West End Day Care in Palmerton.