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Later years
Moab’s economy was originally based on agriculture, but gradually shifted to mining. Uranium and vanadium were discovered in the area in the 1910s and 1920s. Potash and manganese came next, and then oil and gas were discovered. In the 1950s Moab became the so-called “Uranium Capital of the World” after geologist Charles Steen found a rich deposit of uranium ore south of the city.[9] This discovery coincided with the advent of the era of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the United States, and Moab’s boom years began.
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Films filmed in MOAB, UTAH
Stagecoach (1939)
Wagon Master (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
Warlock (1958)
Ten Who Dared (1960)
The Comancheros (1961)
Cheyenne Autumn (1963)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1963)
Rio Conchos (1964)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Fade In (1968)
Blue (1968)
Wild Rovers (1971)
Against a Crooked Sky (1975)
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Choke Canyon (1986)
Nightmare at Noon (1988)
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Baraka (1992)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Knights (1993)
Slaughter of the Innocents (1993)
City Slickers II (1994)
Lightning Jack (1994)
The Great American West (1995)
Larger Than Life (1996)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1996)
RocketMan (1997)
Breakdown (1997)
Con Air (1997)
A passion in the desert (1996)
Lost Treasure of Dos Santos (1997)
Chill Factor (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Vertical Limit (2000)
Nurse Betty (2000)
Joe Dirt (2001)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Hulk (2003)
Don’t Come Knocking (2005)
The Canyon (2009)
Star Trek (2009)
127 Hours (2010)
Guns, Girls and Gambling (2011)
John Carter (2012)
After Earth (2013)
Lone Ranger (2013)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)