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  "commitment": {
    "id": "fin-us-alcoa-sojitz-gallium-2025-equity",
    "eventId": "evt-us-au-framework-2025",
    "relationships": [],
    "instrument": "equity",
    "valueRole": "commitment",
    "capitalSource": "public",
    "amount": null,
    "provider": "United States Government",
    "providerJurisdiction": "us",
    "providerOrgIds": [
      "org-us-government"
    ],
    "legalAuthority": null,
    "programmeId": null,
    "recipient": "Alcoa-Sojitz Gallium Recovery Project",
    "recipientOrgIds": [],
    "project": "Gallium recovery at the Alcoa-Sojitz project",
    "projectId": "prj-au-alcoa-sojitz-gallium",
    "facility": null,
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "AU",
        "subnational": "Western Australia",
        "asStated": "Wagerup, Western Australia"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "stageAllocation": "single_stage",
    "materialIds": [
      "gallium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "financialStatusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "announced",
        "date": "2025-10-20",
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "implementationStatusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "construction",
        "date": "2026-08-24",
        "sourceId": "src-alcoa-wagerup-groundbreaking-2026",
        "note": "Alcoa states that the 24 August 2026 groundbreaking marked the start of construction at Wagerup."
      }
    ],
    "terms": [],
    "outcomes": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "supports": [
          "instrument",
          "value_role",
          "capital_source",
          "provider",
          "recipient",
          "project",
          "location",
          "materials",
          "status"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Sixth paragraph",
        "note": "\"The United States Government is also making an equity investment with a right of offtake.\" Stated in the Australian release; no US source in the corpus gives the amount."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Sixth paragraph",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-alcoa-wagerup-groundbreaking-2026",
        "supports": [
          "status"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Opening paragraphs",
        "note": "Supports the project's physical construction status only; it does not establish execution or payment of this specific public financial instrument."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "No amount is stated, and none is inferred. The right of offtake that accompanies it is not separately recorded because the release gives no term for it. Lifecycle review on 2 October 2026 confirmed physical construction began on 24 August 2026. The reviewed primary sources did not establish that this specific government equity/offtake instrument had been legally executed or paid, so its financial status is not promoted beyond the existing announced state.",
    "lifecycleReview": {
      "financialStatusCheckedAt": "2026-10-02",
      "implementationStatusCheckedAt": "2026-10-02"
    }
  },
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-us-au-framework-2025",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "jurisdiction": "australia",
    "titleEn": "United States–Australia Framework for Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths"
  },
  "parents": [],
  "children": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
      "title": "Historic critical minerals framework signed by President Trump and Prime Minister Albanese",
      "publisher": "Prime Minister of Australia",
      "url": "https://www.pm.gov.au/media/historic-critical-minerals-framework-signed-president-trump-and-prime-minister-albanese",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-10-21",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The Prime Minister's release, dated Tuesday 21 October 2025 in Australia (datetime 2025-10-20T19:16:41Z), read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (the site blocks automated clients). Source of \"each provide at least USD$1 billion in investments towards an USD$8.5 billion pipeline ... over the next six months\", the up to USD$200 million concessional equity in the Alcoa-Sojitz Gallium Recovery Project with an Australian right of offtake, the US equity investment with a right of offtake in the same project, and the USD$100 million equity investment in Arafura's Nolans project."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-alcoa-wagerup-groundbreaking-2026",
      "title": "Australia, Japan, the United States and Alcoa Break Ground on Gallium Project in Western Australia",
      "publisher": "Alcoa Corporation",
      "url": "https://news.alcoa.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2026/Australia-Japan-the-United-States-and-Alcoa-Break-Ground-on-Gallium-Project-in-Western-Australia/default.aspx",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2026-08-24",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-02",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Alcoa's first-party release states that the 24 August 2026 groundbreaking marked the start of construction of the gallium production facility at the Wagerup alumina refinery."
    }
  ]
}