States only platinum and palladium mine and has been the victim of deliberate market manipulation by Russia. You know, Russia's dumping of cheap minerals into the international market forced the Savannah Stillwater, the owners of the mine to scale back its operations and lay off 700 well paid workers at the end of last year. Obviously it's had an incredible impact on my district and those impact on my district in those counties. So China employs similar manipulative tactics to an even greater degree in order to promote dependence and freeze out competition. (00:09–00:24)
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Asserts that Russian dumping led to operational scaling back and layoffs at the Savannah Stillwater mine.
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