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  {
    "id": "prj-au-alcoa-sojitz-gallium",
    "name": "Alcoa-Sojitz Gallium Recovery Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "AU",
        "subnational": "Western Australia",
        "asStated": "Wagerup, Western Australia"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "gallium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Paragraphs on the first priority project",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The release names the project without saying who develops it, so no sponsor is recorded. It calls it \"a trilateral project with Japan, the United States and Australia\" and says \"Japan has already provided 50 percent of the project costs to date\"; no Japanese amount is stated or recorded."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-au-nolans",
    "name": "Nolans project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-arafura-rare-earths"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "AU",
        "subnational": "Northern Territory",
        "asStated": "the Northern Territory"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Paragraph on the second priority project",
        "note": "\"the Arafura Nolans project in the Northern Territory\""
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-arafura-nolans-efa-subscription-2026",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Overview and Export Finance Australia section, pp. 1–2; Annexure B, use of proceeds",
        "note": "Arafura Rare Earths Limited is the corporate developer raising funds specifically for the Nolans project. This sponsorship link does not assert separate legal ownership of project assets."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The release names the project as \"the Arafura Nolans project\" and states no developer or stage, so neither is recorded. The April 2026 ASX announcement expressly identifies Arafura Rare Earths Limited as the corporate equity issuer financing Nolans development, so it is registered as the project's sponsor/developer; underlying project-asset title remains unasserted."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-be-gepeto",
    "name": "GePETO",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-umicore"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "BE",
        "subnational": null,
        "asStated": "Belgium"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "germanium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2025-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials",
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Entry (14)",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2025-03",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Article 2, rows 14 and 39",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-be-oreon",
    "name": "OREON (Optimal REcycling Of Nickel)",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-umicore"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "BE",
        "subnational": null,
        "asStated": "Belgium"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "cobalt",
      "nickel"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "copper",
      "platinum group metals"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2026-10",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials",
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Entry (26)",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2026-10",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Article 2, row 26",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-be-regain",
    "name": "ReGAIN",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-umicore"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "BE",
        "subnational": null,
        "asStated": "Belgium"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [],
    "materialIds": [
      "germanium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2025-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Entry (39)",
        "note": "A substitution project: it \"aims to contribute to the substitution of germanium\", so no supply-chain stage is coded."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2025-03",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Article 2, rows 14 and 39",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": "A substitution project: it \"aims to contribute to the substitution of germanium\", so no supply-chain stage is coded."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-cmgd-nb-granitoids",
    "name": "Geochronology and Petrogenesis of Granitoids and Related Critical Mineral Systems in New Brunswick",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-ca-nb-geological-survey"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "New Brunswick",
        "asStated": "Fredericton, New Brunswick"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "exploration"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "tungsten",
      "lithium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "copper",
      "zinc"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Critical Minerals Geoscience and Data initiative: Geochronology and Petrogenesis of Granitoids and Related Critical Mineral Systems in New Brunswick",
        "note": "NRCan explicitly labels this a project, names the New Brunswick Geological Survey as recipient, gives Fredericton as the project location, and names lithium, tungsten, copper and zinc."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Critical Minerals Geoscience and Data initiative: Geochronology and Petrogenesis of Granitoids and Related Critical Mineral Systems in New Brunswick",
        "note": "Regional exploration models, mineral discovery support and mineral-potential mapping are read as exploration."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The project is a bounded geoscience undertaking under CMGD. Its source-defined project status and location are preserved even though it is not a mine-development asset."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-cmgd-nb-maritimes-basin",
    "name": "Critical Mineral Potential of the Maritimes Basin in Eastern New Brunswick",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-ca-nb-geological-survey"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "New Brunswick",
        "asStated": "Grand Lake Region, New Brunswick"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "exploration"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements",
      "lithium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "copper",
      "zinc"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Critical Minerals Geoscience and Data initiative: Critical Mineral Potential of the Maritimes Basin in Eastern New Brunswick",
        "note": "NRCan explicitly labels this a project, names the New Brunswick Geological Survey as recipient, gives Grand Lake Region as the project location, and names lithium, rare earth elements, copper and zinc."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Critical Minerals Geoscience and Data initiative: Critical Mineral Potential of the Maritimes Basin in Eastern New Brunswick",
        "note": "Field mapping, sediment sampling and mineral-potential assessment are read as exploration."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The project is a bounded geoscience undertaking under CMGD. Its source-defined project status and location are preserved even though it is not a mine-development asset."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-cmgd-ns-graphite-battery-value-chains",
    "name": "Graphite in Support of Battery Value Chains",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-ca-ns-dnr"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Nova Scotia",
        "asStated": "Halifax, Nova Scotia"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "exploration"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Critical Minerals Geoscience and Data initiative: Graphite in Support of Battery Value Chains",
        "note": "NRCan explicitly labels this a project, names the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources as recipient, gives Halifax as the project location, and identifies graphite as the mineral focus."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Critical Minerals Geoscience and Data initiative: Graphite in Support of Battery Value Chains",
        "note": "Geological mapping, three-dimensional modelling and laboratory analysis to identify areas for future exploration and development are read as exploration."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The project is a bounded geoscience undertaking under CMGD. Its source-defined project status and location are preserved even though it is not a mine-development asset."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-cyclic-kingston-centre-of-excellence",
    "name": "Kingston Centre of Excellence for Rare Earth Recycling",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-cyclic-materials"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Ontario",
        "asStated": "Kingston, Ontario"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "separation",
      "processing",
      "recycling",
      "research_development"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-cyclic-centre-excellence-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Announcement body; A Strategic Facility Serving a Circular Future",
        "note": "Cyclic describes a Kingston Centre of Excellence combining its first commercial rare-earth recovery Hub with R&D. The facility processes magnet-rich end-of-life feedstock into recycled mixed rare-earth oxide."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-gpi-programme",
        "supports": [
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "GPI funded projects — Contribution funding — Cyclic Materials Inc.",
        "note": "NRCan says the project advances rare-earth processing, separation and metallization technologies using end-of-life materials; recycling, processing and separation are represented directly in the tracker taxonomy."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The Centre of Excellence is separate from the earlier Kingston Demonstration Plant recorded as prj-ca-cyclic-kingston-demonstration-plant. The June 2025 company announcement describes the commercial-scale Hub and R&D facility; the January 2026 CGF source says that Hub was then under construction."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-cyclic-kingston-demonstration-plant",
    "name": "Kingston Demonstration Plant",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-cyclic-materials"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Ontario",
        "asStated": "Kingston, Ontario"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "recycling"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements",
      "cobalt",
      "nickel"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-programme",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Funded Projects: \"Kingston Demonstration Plant – Extended Operations\"",
        "note": "Organization: Cyclic Materials Inc; location: Kingston, Ontario; critical minerals: rare earth elements, cobalt, nickel; status: launched in 2024, completed in March 2026."
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-focus-graphite-electrothermal-purification",
    "name": "Chemical-Free Electrothermal Purification Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-focus-graphite"
    ],
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: Focus Graphite",
        "note": "NRCan calls this Focus Graphite's chemical-free electrothermal purification project and identifies natural flake graphite from the Lac Knife and Lac Tétépisca deposits as feedstock. Those deposits are not treated as the project location."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: Focus Graphite",
        "note": "The project demonstrates a high-temperature electrothermal purification process for natural flake graphite, read as processing."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "Thermal & Material Engineering Center and American Energy Technologies Company are named collaborators in the source but are not added as sponsor organizations in this tranche. No project site is stated."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-ggt-graphite-recycling-pilot",
    "name": "Recycling of Graphite from Secondary Sources for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-green-graphite-technologies"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Ontario",
        "asStated": "Kingston, Ontario"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "recycling"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-programme",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Funded Projects",
        "note": "\"through a pilot plant project\"; organization: Green Graphite Technologies Inc; location: Kingston, Ontario; status: launched in 2024, expected to be completed by 2026."
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-ggt-regolith-graphite",
    "name": "Battery-Grade Graphite: A Canadian Low-GHG Solution From Regolith Resources",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-green-graphite-technologies"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "British Columbia",
        "asStated": "Nelson, British Columbia"
      },
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Ontario",
        "asStated": "Mississauga, Ontario"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "materials",
          "location"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Energy Innovation Program: Green Graphite Technologies entry",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Energy Innovation Program: Green Graphite Technologies entry",
        "note": "\"upgrade near-surface graphite for use in lithium-ion batteries\", read as processing."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-regolith-eip-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Project profile: Lead Proponent, Partners, Location and Project Objectives",
        "note": "The current NRCan EIP profile confirms the project name, Green Graphite Technologies as lead proponent, Weaver Energy as partner, BC/ON locations and the high-purity graphite processing objective."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ggt-mississauga-demo-commissioning-20260811",
        "supports": [
          "location"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Opening sentence",
        "note": "GGT's official post identifies a Mississauga graphite-purification demonstration facility entering final-stage commissioning. This corroborates activity at the project's recorded Mississauga location, but the post does not use the Regolith project title."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The current NRCan EIP profile lists the project as Active, with a C$4,750,000 agreement value and C$12,262,850 project total; it gives no payment or construction date. GGT's 11 August 2026 official post says its Mississauga graphite-purification demonstration facility was entering final-stage commissioning. The post does not identify the NRCan award by name, so the linkage is recorded with that limitation; no commercial operation or project completion is inferred. Review on 3 October 2026 found no later project-specific primary disclosure."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-nmg-matawinie",
    "name": "Matawinie Mine",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-nouveau-monde-graphite"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Quebec",
        "asStated": "near Montreal, Quebec"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "mining"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "materials",
          "location",
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "First paragraph of the list",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The backgrounder describes the company's aim of \"the largest fully integrated natural graphite production facility in North America\"; only the mine is recorded as the project."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-noram-lithium-electrolysis",
    "name": "Electrolysis for Lithium Production and Recycling",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-noram-electrolysis-systems"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "British Columbia",
        "asStated": "British Columbia"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "lithium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-canada-grant-noram-cmrdd-2024",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Title; Recipient's Legal Name; programme description",
        "note": "The grant title is used as the project name. NRCan's release identifies the supported activity as industrial-scale membrane electrolysis for lithium production."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-lithium-processing-2024",
        "supports": [
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Opening paragraph; NESI investment paragraph",
        "note": "The release places the supported battery-supply-chain work in British Columbia and describes lithium-hydroxide production as midstream lithium processing."
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-northern-rain-upcycled-graphite",
    "name": "Upcycled Natural Graphite for Fast-Charging, Long-Life Lithium Battery Technology",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-northern-graphite",
      "org-rain-carbon-canada"
    ],
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "research_development"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: Northern Graphite and Rain Carbon Canada",
        "note": "NRCan identifies Northern Graphite and Rain Carbon Canada and describes research to turn leftover natural graphite from mining into high-quality material used in battery anodes."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "No project site is stated; none is inferred from Northern Graphite's separate Lac des Iles operations or participant locations."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-ntwist-nickel-efficiency",
    "name": "Nickel Production and Efficiency R&D Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-ntwist",
      "org-tunley-environmental",
      "org-vale-europe"
    ],
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "research_development"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "nickel"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Research and development projects: NTwist Inc.",
        "note": "The source gives no formal project title; the name is a concise normalization of its stated purpose. NRCan identifies NTwist's project with Vale Europe and Tunley Environmental to improve nickel production and efficiency and places the funding in an NRC–UKRI research-and-development collaboration."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "No project location is stated; none is inferred from participant addresses or company names."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-ca-saltworks-lithium-brine",
    "name": "Lithium Brine Concentration and Conversion Demonstration",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-saltworks-technologies"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "British Columbia",
        "asStated": "British Columbia"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "lithium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-lithium-processing-2024",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
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        "evidence": "explicit",
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    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "boron"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-doe-ioneer-rhyolite-2025-close",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Paragraphs 1–2: named project recipient, lithium-carbonate processing and Nevada site",
        "note": "Named project is integrated lithium-boron mine but financed portion is the on-site lithium processing plant and related infrastructure."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-doe-rhyolite-nepa-0565",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Project summary paragraphs 1–2, DOE/EIS-0565",
        "note": "Loan financing scope includes lithium processing plant, sulfuric-acid unit and associated infrastructure, specifically excluding open-pit mine."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-sec-ioneer-rhyolite-q2-2026",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "June 2026 Quarterly Activities, project description and Engineering section",
        "note": "Pre-FID engineering for lithium-carbonate circuit; boron is a separate co-product of the wider Rhyolite Ridge venture, not allocated a known slice of the DOE guarantee."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "DOE-guaranteed finance supports on-site lithium processing and ancillary sulfuric-acid/support facilities, not open-pit mining. The broader Rhyolite Ridge project co-produces boron, which is not tracked as a material in this SMPT registry and receives no distinct allocated dollar amount here. As of 30 June 2026, issuer states no development or production activity this quarter, and FID/construction not yet achieved. Ioneer Ltd is the separately registered Australian-listed corporate developer; the loan guarantee names the U.S. project entity as direct recipient, not the parent."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-stibnite",
    "name": "Stibnite Gold Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Idaho",
        "asStated": "central Idaho"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "mining",
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "antimony"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "gold",
      "silver"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-dod-perpetua-dpa-2022",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Opening paragraphs",
        "note": "DoD names the Stibnite-Gold Project in central Idaho and identifies antimony trisulfide as the defense-relevant output."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-perpetua-sec-2026-q2",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Project financing and 2026 outlook sections",
        "note": "The filing describes development of the mine project and the processing plant as part of the approved project scope."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "A gold-antimony-silver development; only antimony is tracked as a material in SMPT."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-thacker-pass-phase1-processing",
    "name": "Thacker Pass Phase 1 lithium-carbonate processing facilities",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-lithium-nevada-llc"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Nevada",
        "asStated": "Thacker Pass, Humboldt County, Nevada"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "lithium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-doe-thacker-pass-2024",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Project summary and project statistics",
        "note": "DOE names Lithium Nevada Corp. and describes lithium-carbonate processing facilities at Thacker Pass."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-doe-thacker-pass-nepa-2024",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Summary: subject of DOE loan is mine processing facilities and associated infrastructure, not development and operation of open-pit mine",
        "note": "Determines funded physical scope, narrower than the full Thacker Pass mine development."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-sec-lac-thacker-q2-2026",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "MD&A, Thacker Pass overview and Q2 construction highlights",
        "note": "Lithium Nevada LLC owns Thacker Pass through the joint venture; its parent group describes active construction of Phase 1 processing plant and associated infrastructure."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "This registry project represents the DOE-loan-financed Phase 1 lithium processing plant, sulfuric-acid facility and related infrastructure, not the open-pit mine development. The wider Thacker Pass mine/JV is not automatically allocated the DOE $2.23B facility. June 2026 SEC report evidences ongoing construction, not commissioning or operational lithium carbonate production."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-usac-alaska-antimony-feedstock",
    "name": "US Antimony Alaska antimony mining and feedstock development",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-us-antimony"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Alaska",
        "asStated": "Alaska"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "mining"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "antimony"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-dow-usac-antimony-2026",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Award scope: Alaska mining and feedstock paragraphs",
        "note": "DoW identifies USAC as recipient and Alaska as the mining/feedstock undertaking, without naming a specific mine."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usac-2026-q1-call-sec-exhibit",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "CEO response to Jonathan Miller, Q&A: $27M award allocation",
        "note": "Company states $7M is for Alaska but does not identify a site or establish payment."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "Scoped to the Alaska antimony feedstock undertaking funded by the DPA Title III award. No source reviewed links this allocation to a specifically named Alaska mine; the $7M portion is not stated to have been disbursed."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-usac-thompson-falls-expansion",
    "name": "Thompson Falls antimony processing and refining expansion",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-us-antimony"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Montana",
        "asStated": "Thompson Falls, Montana"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing",
      "refining"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "antimony"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-dow-usac-antimony-2026",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Award scope: Thompson Falls facility expansion",
        "note": "Government identifies expansion of USAC's Montana antimony processing and refining capacity."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usac-2026-q1-call-sec-exhibit",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Thompson Falls operational report and CEO's response on $27M award allocation",
        "note": "Recipient states $20M is for Thompson Falls; this is the allocation, not a claim that all $20M was paid."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "Part of the $27M DoW DPA Title III award. The company allocated $20M to Thompson Falls in its SEC-furnished May 2026 call transcript. The $12.8M first-quarter milestones/payment are not a second award."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-usar-magnet-project-2",
    "name": "Magnet Project 2",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-usa-rare-earth"
    ],
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "component_manufacturing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "ndfeb-magnets"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Item 1.01, Direct Funding Agreement (d)",
        "note": "\"the construction of a new magnet making facility\""
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Item 1.01 (d)",
        "note": "A new magnet making facility; the filing does not name the magnet type or the site. NdFeB is read from the company's Stillwater production, not stated for this project."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The filing does not name the site."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-usar-metal-project-2",
    "name": "Metal Project 2",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-usa-rare-earth"
    ],
    "locations": [],
    "stages": [
      "refining"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Item 1.01, Direct Funding Agreement (e)",
        "note": "\"the construction of a new strip casting and metal making facility\""
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Item 1.01 (e)",
        "note": "A new strip casting and metal making facility; the filing does not name the site. Read as the refining stage."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The filing does not name the site."
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-usar-round-top",
    "name": "Round Top Mine Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-usa-rare-earth"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Texas",
        "asStated": "Sierra Blanca, Texas"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "mining",
      "processing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements",
      "gallium",
      "dysprosium",
      "terbium"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "hafnium",
      "zirconium"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Item 1.01, Direct Funding Agreement (a)",
        "note": "\"the construction of a rare earth mining and processing facility in Sierra Blanca, Texas\""
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nist-chips-usar-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Third and fourth paragraphs",
        "note": "The Commerce release names the 12 minerals the mine will process: yttrium, gallium, dysprosium, terbium, holmium, lutetium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, gadolinium, hafnium and zirconium. The rare earths among them fall under the grouped material; hafnium and zirconium are untracked."
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
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    "id": "prj-us-usar-stillwater-magnet",
    "name": "Stillwater Magnet Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-usa-rare-earth"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Oklahoma",
        "asStated": "Stillwater, Oklahoma"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "component_manufacturing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "ndfeb-magnets"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Item 1.01, Direct Funding Agreement (b)",
        "note": "\"the expansion and modernization of the existing magnet making facility located in Stillwater, Oklahoma\""
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nist-chips-usar-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Third and fourth paragraphs",
        "note": "The Commerce release says the Stillwater project will increase \"production capacity of NdFeB magnets to 10,000 TPA\"."
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-us-usar-stillwater-metal",
    "name": "Stillwater Metal Project",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-usa-rare-earth"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Oklahoma",
        "asStated": "Stillwater, Oklahoma"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "refining"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-usar-8k-2026-06-03",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Item 1.01, Direct Funding Agreement (c)",
        "note": "\"the expansion and modernization of the existing strip casting and metal making facility located in Stillwater, Oklahoma\""
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nist-chips-usar-2026",
        "supports": [
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Third and fourth paragraphs",
        "note": "Strip casting and metal making for rare earth metals and alloys (Commerce release), read as the refining stage."
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  },
  {
    "id": "prj-za-zandkopsdrift",
    "name": "Zandkopsdrift",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-frontier-rare-earths"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "ZA",
        "subnational": null,
        "asStated": "South Africa"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "mining"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "includes_untracked",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [
      "manganese (battery grade)"
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2025-06",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "location",
          "materials",
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Entry (13)",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2025-06",
        "supports": [
          "sponsors"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Article 2, row 13",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": null
  }
]