The lucrative colossal Colosseum Mine in California’s Mojave Desert was rocked Monday by a court order halting its gold- and rare-earth-mineral operations. The bitter court battle over the controversial historic site — which President Trump hoped would help reduce US dependence on foreign sources of such minerals — pitted its owners and the administration against conservationists who argued its explorations were causing environmental harm. “This decision is not supported by the facts or the legal precedent and we were certainly hoping for an even handed look at the actual law, but that’s not what we got,” Stephen Baghdadi, CEO of…