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    "instrument": "unspecified",
    "valueRole": "commitment",
    "capitalSource": "public",
    "amount": {
      "value": "500000",
      "currency": "CAD",
      "qualifier": "exact",
      "amountAsStated": "$500,000 through the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)’s Industrial Research Assistance Program",
      "currencyBasis": "issuer_context"
    },
    "provider": "National Research Council of Canada (Industrial Research Assistance Program)",
    "providerJurisdiction": "canada",
    "providerOrgIds": [
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    "legalAuthority": null,
    "programmeId": null,
    "recipient": "NTwist Inc.",
    "recipientOrgIds": [
      "org-ntwist"
    ],
    "project": "Nickel production and efficiency R&D project",
    "projectId": "prj-ca-ntwist-nickel-efficiency",
    "facility": null,
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "research_development"
    ],
    "stageAllocation": "single_stage",
    "materialIds": [
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    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "financialStatusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "announced",
        "date": "2025-10-31",
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "note": "NRCan lists the project with $500,000 through NRC IRAP. No matching C$500,000 agreement was located in the reviewed federal grants disclosure, so no contracted or binding stage is inferred."
      }
    ],
    "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",
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: NTwist Inc.",
        "note": "NRCan identifies C$500,000 through NRC IRAP for NTwist's project with Vale Europe and Tunley Environmental to improve nickel production and efficiency; the item appears in the backgrounder's research-and-development project section."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "Vale Europe Ltd. and Tunley Environmental Ltd. are named project collaborators, not recipients of the Canadian funding. No project location, payment, or physical production milestone is inferred."
  },
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2025",
    "date": "2025-10-31",
    "jurisdiction": "canada",
    "titleEn": "Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains (G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, first round)"
  },
  "parents": [],
  "children": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
      "title": "Backgrounder: Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2025/10/backgrounder-canada-unlocks-25-new-investments-and-partnerships-with-9-allied-countries-to-secure-critical-minerals-supply-chains.html",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-10-31",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "NRCan backgrounder on the first round of projects under the G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, announced on 31 October 2025 at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers' Meeting in Toronto. Read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (canada.ca times out for automated clients). Figures without a currency are Canadian dollars, read from the issuing government; figures in US dollars are printed as US$."
    }
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}