GMS Rogue Nation KT (@AnonymousMe)
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America’s Rare Earth Empire COLLAPSES — Molycorp’s $6B Fortune DESTROYED by One Country! - 12,649 views Premiered Aug 8, 2026 #SupplyChain #China #RareEarths In 2011, Molycorp was worth roughly $6 billion. It owned Mountain Pass — the only rare earth mine in America, reopened in the Mojave Desert after China restricted exports and sent prices through the roof. Washington called it national security. Congress held hearings. Investors piled in. Four years later the company filed for Chapter 11, the mine went dark, and Mountain Pass was sold out of bankruptcy for about $20 million — to a group that included a Chinese state-linked firm. By 2018, American-mined rare earth concentrate was being shipped to China for processing. Here's what makes it strange: the geology was never wrong. The deposit was real, honestly assessed, and it's still in the ground today. Nobody drilled a dry hole. What killed Molycorp was a decision made 7,000 miles away — and it wasn't the decision anyone was expecting. This is the story of how a country can destroy a company without a tariff, a sanction, or a single hostile act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkhPIncL1E #RareEarths #Molycorp #MountainPass #China #SupplyChain #Geoscope