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    "id": "fin-ca-g7-2025-focus-graphite-gpi",
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    "instrument": "unspecified",
    "valueRole": "commitment",
    "capitalSource": "public",
    "amount": {
      "value": "14100000",
      "currency": "CAD",
      "qualifier": "up_to",
      "amountAsStated": "a conditionally approved investment of up to $14.1 million from Natural Resources Canada’s Global Partnerships Initiative",
      "currencyBasis": "issuer_context"
    },
    "provider": "Natural Resources Canada (Global Partnerships Initiative)",
    "providerJurisdiction": "canada",
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      "org-ca-nrcan"
    ],
    "legalAuthority": null,
    "programmeId": null,
    "recipient": "Focus Graphite",
    "recipientOrgIds": [
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    "project": "Chemical-free electrothermal purification project for natural flake graphite",
    "projectId": "prj-ca-focus-graphite-electrothermal-purification",
    "facility": null,
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
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      "graphite"
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    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "financialStatusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "decided",
        "date": "2025-10-31",
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "note": "\"conditionally approved\"."
      }
    ],
    "implementationStatusHistory": [],
    "terms": [],
    "outcomes": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
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          "value_role",
          "capital_source",
          "amount",
          "provider",
          "recipient",
          "status",
          "project",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: Focus Graphite",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: Focus Graphite",
        "note": "High-temperature purification of flake graphite, read as processing."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "In collaboration with Ukraine's Thermal & Material Engineering Center and American Energy Technologies Company; the graphite comes from the Lac Knife and Lac Tétépisca deposits."
  },
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2025",
    "date": "2025-10-31",
    "jurisdiction": "canada",
    "titleEn": "Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains (G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, first round)"
  },
  "parents": [],
  "children": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
      "title": "Backgrounder: Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2025/10/backgrounder-canada-unlocks-25-new-investments-and-partnerships-with-9-allied-countries-to-secure-critical-minerals-supply-chains.html",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-10-31",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "NRCan backgrounder on the first round of projects under the G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, announced on 31 October 2025 at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers' Meeting in Toronto. Read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (canada.ca times out for automated clients). Figures without a currency are Canadian dollars, read from the issuing government; figures in US dollars are printed as US$."
    }
  ]
}