{
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-us-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022",
    "date": "2022-12-19",
    "jurisdiction": "us",
    "issuingBody": "U.S. Department of Defense",
    "titleOriginal": "DoD Issues $24.8M Critical Minerals Award to Perpetua Resources",
    "titleOriginalLang": "en",
    "titleEn": "DoD Defense Production Act support for Perpetua's Stibnite antimony project",
    "titleEnSource": "na",
    "documentNumber": null,
    "policyStatus": "ended",
    "mechanism": [
      "funding",
      "supply_chain_security"
    ],
    "affectedMaterialIds": [
      "antimony"
    ],
    "affectedSectors": [
      "defense",
      "industrial"
    ],
    "summary": "DoD announced an initial Defense Production Act Title III award for environmental and engineering work on Perpetua Resources' Stibnite Gold Project. The Technology Investment Agreement was later definitized at $24.8 million and modified in May 2024 by an additional $34.4 million, bringing the total ceiling to $59.2 million. The agreement expired on 16 June 2025; Perpetua's June 2026 Form 10-Q states that all available funds had been disbursed.",
    "analyticalSignificance": "A multi-year federal grant supported permitting and construction readiness for a domestic antimony source before the project reached construction.",
    "supersededByEventId": null,
    "sourceIds": [
      "src-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022",
      "src-perpetua-sec-dpa-2022",
      "src-perpetua-sec-2024-q2",
      "src-perpetua-sec-2026-q2",
      "src-perpetua-stibnite-construction-2026"
    ],
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "intakeMode": "backfill",
    "lifecycle": {
      "officialPublicationDate": "2022-12-19",
      "discoveredAt": null,
      "verifiedAt": "2026-10-02",
      "publishedAt": null
    }
  },
  "framing": [
    {
      "id": "fc-us-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022-resilience",
      "eventId": "evt-us-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022",
      "actor": "us",
      "category": [
        "national_security",
        "supply_chain_resilience"
      ],
      "quoteOriginal": "restore domestic industrial capabilities essential to the national defense",
      "quoteEn": "restore domestic industrial capabilities essential to the national defense",
      "quoteEnSource": "na",
      "sourceId": "src-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022",
      "notes": "DoD description of the DPA Investments Program mission in the award release."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022",
      "title": "DoD Issues $24.8M Critical Minerals Award to Perpetua Resources",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense",
      "url": "https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3249350/dod-issues-248m-critical-minerals-award-to-perpetua-resources/",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2022-12-19",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-02",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "DoD release announcing the initial Defense Production Act Title III award to Perpetua Resources Idaho, Inc. for environmental and engineering work on the Stibnite Gold Project and identifying antimony trisulfide as the defense-relevant material."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-perpetua-sec-dpa-2022",
      "title": "Perpetua Resources Corp., Form 8-K (Defense Production Act Technology Investment Agreement)",
      "publisher": "Perpetua Resources Corp. / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526243/000110465922128035/tm2232993d1_8k.htm",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2022-12-19",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-02",
      "sourceType": "other",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Filed disclosure of the Technology Investment Agreement effective 16 December 2022. States that Perpetua Resources Idaho entered into an undefinitized TIA with DoD/Air Force Research Laboratory for up to $24.8 million under DPA Title III."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-perpetua-sec-2024-q2",
      "title": "Perpetua Resources Corp., Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2024",
      "publisher": "Perpetua Resources Corp. / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526243/000110465924087827/ppta-20240630x10q.htm",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": null,
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-02",
      "sourceType": "other",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Filed disclosure that the DPA TIA was definitized at $24.8 million on 25 July 2023 and modified on 2 May 2024 with an additional $34.4 million, bringing the total to $59.2 million. Also reports reimbursements under the agreement."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-perpetua-sec-2026-q2",
      "title": "Perpetua Resources Corp., Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026",
      "publisher": "Perpetua Resources Corp. / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526243/000110465926097134/ppta-20260630x10q.htm",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2026-08-14",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-02",
      "sourceType": "other",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Filing date 2026-08-14 independently verified against SEC EDGAR accession 0001104659-26-097134 index; 2026-06-30 is the period-end, not the publication date. Filed disclosure that all $59.2 million available under the DPA TIA had been disbursed and the agreement expired 16 June 2025; also records the OTIA's later additions to a current estimated $27.1 million and ongoing reimbursements. Separately describes the EXIM board-approved $2.9 billion senior secured loan as subject to definitive documentation and conditions precedent."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-perpetua-stibnite-construction-2026",
      "title": "Perpetua Resources Advances Construction of the Stibnite Gold Project",
      "publisher": "Perpetua Resources Corp.",
      "url": "https://www.investors.perpetuaresources.com/investors/news/perpetua-resources-advances-construction-of-the-stibnite-gold-project",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2026-06-01",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-02",
      "sourceType": "other",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Company project update stating that additional critical-path construction began 30 May 2026 and built on early-works construction that began in October 2025."
    }
  ]
}