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    "eventId": "evt-us-au-framework-2025",
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    "instrument": "mixed",
    "valueRole": "program_envelope",
    "capitalSource": "public",
    "amount": {
      "value": "1000000000",
      "currency": "USD",
      "qualifier": "at_least",
      "amountAsStated": "the US and Australia will take measures to each provide at least USD$1 billion in investments",
      "currencyBasis": "stated"
    },
    "provider": "United States Government",
    "providerJurisdiction": "us",
    "providerOrgIds": [
      "org-us-government"
    ],
    "legalAuthority": null,
    "programmeId": null,
    "recipient": null,
    "recipientOrgIds": [],
    "project": null,
    "projectId": null,
    "facility": null,
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "mining",
      "separation",
      "processing"
    ],
    "stageAllocation": "multi_stage_unallocated",
    "materialIds": [],
    "materialAttribution": "not_stated",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "financialStatusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "announced",
        "date": "2025-10-20",
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "note": "Announced with the Framework in Washington on 20 October 2025; the Australian release is dated 21 October 2025."
      }
    ],
    "implementationStatusHistory": [],
    "terms": [
      {
        "kind": "duration",
        "value": "6",
        "qualifier": "exact",
        "currency": null,
        "unit": "months",
        "asStated": "within 6 months of the date of this Framework",
        "sourceId": "src-wh-us-au-framework-2025",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "outcomes": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "supports": [
          "value_role",
          "capital_source",
          "amount",
          "provider",
          "status"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Third paragraph",
        "note": "The Australian release says \"each\"; the Framework text alone says \"at least $1 billion in financing to projects located in each of the United States and Australia\"."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-wh-us-au-framework-2025",
        "supports": [
          "instrument",
          "stages",
          "terms"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Recitals; Section I, investment and financing clauses",
        "note": "\"The Participants will mobilize government and private sector support including for capital and operational expenditures via guarantees, loans, or equity; finalization of offtake arrangements; insurance; or regulatory facilitation.\""
      }
    ],
    "notes": "An envelope each government says it is taking measures to provide, not money committed to a recipient. Section II: the Framework \"does not constitute or create any legally binding or enforceable obligations\". The stages follow the Framework's objective of resilient supply chains \"including mining, separation, and processing\"."
  },
  "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-wh-us-au-framework-2025",
      "title": "United States-Australia Framework For Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths",
      "publisher": "The White House",
      "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/10/united-states-australia-framework-for-securing-of-supply-in-the-mining-and-processing-of-critical-minerals-and-rare-earths/",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-10-20",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Full text of the Framework as signed in Washington on 20 October 2025, read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23. Source of the financing clause (\"within 6 months ... at least $1 billion in financing to projects located in each of the United States and Australia\"), the instrument list (guarantees, loans, equity, offtake, insurance, regulatory facilitation), the price-mechanism and asset-sales clauses, and Section II's statement that the Framework creates no legally binding obligations. The financing clause does not itself say whether the $1 billion is per participant; the Australian release (src-pm-us-au-framework-2025) says each."
    }
  ]
}