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The Little Green Monster (112.178W
40.281N) was a phosphate
mine in central Utah producing about 920 tons per year during the war
years. The earliest mines in the area were opened in the late 1880s but
were consolidated into the Little Green Monster in 1937. The mine
also produced turquoise (variscite), a semiprecious form of copper aluminum phosphate, and was known by 1940 to be a source of scandium, though this rare metal had no industrial uses at the time.
References
Durango Silver Company (accessed 2008-9-15)
Pay Dirt Magazine (2011-9-13; accessed 2012-5-21)
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